E  R  A  S  M  I 
C  O  L  L  O  QJJ  I  A     SELECTA; 

OR,    THE 

SELECT  COLLOQUIES 

OF 

E  R  A  S  M  U  S  : 
WITH  AN  ENGLISH  TRANSLATION, 

AS  LITERAL  AS  POSSIBLE. 
tMStiirjlD  FOR  THE  VSE  OF   BE6INKEXS  !N  THE  ZjiTtN  TONGUE. 


By    JOHN    CLARK, 

Author  of  ihc  Efays  on   Education  and  Study. 


FIRST  WORCESTER  EDITION. 


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E  R  A  S  M  I 
COLLOQUIA  SELECTA. 


NAUFRAG1UM. 


A.  XTARRAS  kor- 
yirmda:  eftifluc 
navigare  ?  Deus  prohib- 
eat  ne  quidquam  taleve- 
n  Ire  t  u  n  qk  a  m  i  n  rsentem . 

B.  Imo  quod  meniora- 
vWKclenus^iX  merits  lu- 
fus  praz  his,  qua  nunc 
audies. 

A.Audiviplusgtfa 
tis  maloruni.     Inhorref- 
co  te  mem  or  ante  i  quafi 
ipft  interfim  ptrlculo* 

B.  Imo,   atli  laborcs 

Junt  jucundi  wz$Az..    Ea 

/20c7<?    quiddam     accidxt 

quod  £*  magna  parte  de- 

mit/pem  fa! Litis  nauclero. 

A.  Quid  tf/V^n?  ? 


THOU  tclleft  flSy^i?/ 
things:  is  /An?  failing'  V 
6W  forbid  //W  any  /'  c//.  MzTrg" 
Ihould  comef^r  into  my  mind 

Nay,  zuli at  I  have  related  hi* 
therto,  is  mere  play, 2»  compart- 
Jon  of  thefe   things  which  now 
yen  fliall  hear. 

I  have  heard  wz^ra  rftfa  e- 
nough<?/>r/z/j.  I  freinble^'/;1/// 
>'<?&  relate,  as  it  I  nty/i'ff  were 
prefer*  t  zfl  //z>  danger. 

Nay,  ##/2  labors  #/v  plea  fa  at 

tome.     That   W7£#/   fomething 

happe?ied,\vhich  rn  a  great  biea- 

Jure  took  away  ihehopts  of  lafc 

ty  from  the  ma//e>\ 

What,  I  pray  you  ? 

B.  Era* 


NAUFRACIUM. 


B.Er»  fullu/lris  nox, 
it  q  ui d am  e  naut is  {lab at 
in  galea  ;  parn/tc  vocant, 
opinor;  circumfpeBans, 
ft  viderat  quavi  terram. 
Quctdam  fpbgpra  ignea 
ccepit  adfi/lere  huic  ;  7  a? 
e  11  /  r  ifiijjim  t/moflentura 
nattiiji  fi  quando  ignis 
f//  folitarius,  jte/?'.*  cum 
gernim.  -Vetuftas  fr^ 
2^///  hos  effe  Caftorem  et 
Pollucern. 

A.  Quid  illis  cum 
nautis,  quorum  zher fa- 
il c  q  u  e  s ,  a  //.<* r  p  ug  i  ]  ? 

B.  vSic  z>?y&/?2  <*//  poe- 
f  is .  Na  uclei  u  s* q iii  tzy^- 
*Wtf/?  clavo,  inquit,  So- 
c\efna?n  naut  as  compel- 
lant  fe  rruuuo  <?0  nomi- 
ne) videfne  quod  fo  la  di- 
hum  iXtxvAddbl  latus  ? 
Video,  refpcndit  ille,  et 
precor  tit  fit \fel\x.  Mox 
igneas  globus  delapfus 
per  Junes,  devolvit  /<? 
ufque  ad  nauclerum. 

A.  Nurn  ille  exani- 
mat  us  efi  #*£/&  ? 

B.  Nautie  a/fuevere 
roonftris.  Ibi  commo- 
ratus  paulfper,  volvit/? 
per  ?narpycnes  tot  i  us  na~ 

Ms,  inae  di/ajfus  per 
inedjos  for os  evanuit. 
Sub  meridiem  tempeftas 
ccepit  incrudefcere  mam 
gis  ac  magis.  Vidiftine 
Aipts  uiiq'uam  ? 


It  was  a  moon  Jlii ne  v\\g\\\ ,ani 
one  of the  fail 'ors  Rood  upon  the 
round  top;  lor  fo  they  call  it,  / 
think;  looking  about  ?/he  could 
fee  any  land.  A  certain  globe  0/ 
jfre  began  to  /land by  him;  that 
is  #  very  fad  fign  /0^/2*  Jailors, 
if  tf^  tf/?j'  /z;/2£  the  fire  w  but  one, 
a  happy  oat  when  there  are  two. 
Antiquity  believed  thefe  to  be 
Cafior  and  Pollux. 


What  have  they  (o  do  with 
failors, of  which  oncwas  a  horie- 
man,  the  other  a  boxt- r  ? 

So  itfeemedgood  to  the  poets: 

The  mafter,\s\\ofat  at  the  helm, 

fays,  comrade,  (for  failors  call 

one  another  by  chat  r\'amt)doyou 

fee   what  company    covers  y$ur 

fde  ?  I  fee,  anfwered  he,  and  1 

wiOxthai  it  may  be  lucky.     By 

and  by  the  fiery  globe Aiding  a« 

long  Me  r0/><?.f  rolls  z//^  to  Me 

ma/ter. 

Was  he  not  killed  with  fear  f 

Sailors  are  ufed  to  ftrange 
things.  There  flaying  a  little 
while,  it  rolled  Xtfelf along  Me 
e^e.r  of  the  whole  Jhip,  alter 
that  /lipping  through  I  he  middle 
of  the  decks,  itvamfhed  away. 
About  noon  the  ilorm  began  to 
rage  more  and  more.  Have 
you  feen  Me  Alps  ever  ? 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


A.  Vidi. 

B.  Il!i  monies  funt 
verruca,  fi  conferantur 
ad  undas  maris.  Quoties 
toliebamur  in  a/turn,  li- 
cuiffet  contingere  lunam 
digito.  Quoties  demitte- 
bamur,  videbamur  ire 
recle  in  tartar  a,  terra 
dehifcente. 

A.  O  infanos  qui  ere- 
duntfe  mari. 

B.  Nautis  luclantibus 
fruflra  cum  tempeitate, 
tandem  nauclerus  totus 
pa] lens  adi.it  nos. 

A.  Is  pallor  praefagit 
aliquod 'magnum  malum, 

B.  Amici,  inquit,  de* 
fivi  effe  dominus  meae 
navis  ;  venti  vicere  ;  re- 
Ixquumejl  \x\.  collocemus 
noftram  Jpem  in  Deo  ; 
et  quifque  paret  fe  ad 
extrema. 

A  O  coneionem  vert 
Scythicam. 

B.  Autem  in  primis, 
inquit,  navis  eft  exone- 
randafic  neceffitas  jubet 
durum  telum  :  Praejiat 
confulere  vita*  difpen- 
dio  rcrum  quzm  interim 
fimul  cum  rebus.  Veri- 
tas perfuafit  ;  pfurima 
vafa  plena  preciofis  mer- 
cibus  projecta  funt  in 
vi  are. 

A,  Hoc  erat  vtxeja- 
cere  jaclurara. 

A  2 


I  have  feen  them. 
Thofe  mountains  are  melt  Li  lis 
if  they  be  compared  to  the  waves 
of  the  fea.  As  oft  as  we  were 
lifted  up  on  high,  one  mig-ht 
have  touched  the  moon  with  a 
fnger.  As  oh  as'  ai;  were  let' 
dozon,  we  feemed  to  go  diteclly 
into  lull,  the  earth  gaping. 

O  mad  folks,  zcho  truii  them* 
Jtlves  to  the  fea  ! 

The  IWilors /IruggUng  in  vain 
with  the  temped,  at  length  the 
mailer  all  pale  came  to  us. 

That  palenejs  prefages  fame, 
great  eviL 

Friends,  faith  he, I  have  ceaf- 
ed  to  be  rnafter  of  my  Slip  ;  M* 
winds  have  conquered  ;  ?/  rc- 
mains  that  a;*  /?/W?  our  hope  in 
God  ;  <zW  let  every  one  /;/<?- 
/;ar^  hlmklijbr  extremities. 

O  fpeech  '? 'uly  Scythian  ! 

But firJL  quoth  he,  theJJiip  [j 
to  be  unloaded  ;  fo  necf/ity 
commands,  ^  /Wa  weapon'  :  // 
is  better  to  take  care  of  lfe}\\{\* 
the  lofs  oj  goods,  than  /<?  ^<r/2/% 
together  a;j/^  our  goods.  Truth 
per  funded  ;  very,  many  vcflels 
yw//  ot  precious  wares  were 
thrown  w/0  thejea. 


This  &-4J-   truly  ^  aw/J&lofs- 
B-  QuiJam 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


B.  Ouidam  I  talus  ad- 
erat,  qui  egerat  legatum 
apudregem  Scotia,  huic 
GtvxJcriniuiA  plenutiuzr- 
genteis  vafis,  annulis 
panno,  et  fericis  vefti- 
mentis, 

A.  Nolebat  is  decide- 
ic  cum  mari  ? 

B.  Non,yW  cupiebat 
aid  perire  cum  fuis  ami- 
cis  opibus,    aut    fervari 

Jimul  cum  illis  s  itaque 
re/ rag a  bat. 

A.  Quid  dixit  nau- 
clerus  ? 

B.  Liceret  tibi  per 
nos,   inquit  tile,   perire 

Jo  him,  cum  tuis  ;  fed 
/2(9«  cequum  efl%  ut  waj 
omnes  perichternur  cau- 
fa  taz  fcrinii,  ah o qui  da- 
bimus  te  praecipitem  ?'» 
mare  una  rtti»  fcrinio. 

A.  Orationem  vere 
nauticam  ! 

B,  Sic  Itahis  quoque 
^aV   jacturam,   pre  cans 

mu ha  mala  fuperis  et 
inferis,  qutfd  e&didttffbt 
juam  vitam  tarn  baibaro 
eiemento  ;  battle  port 
venti  fafti  nikila  mitio- 
jes  no /his  munerihus, 
-  rape  re  times,  disjecere 
vela, 

A.  O  calamka'em  ! 

B.  Ibt  rurjus  nauta 
adit  nos. 

A*  Cancionaturus  ? 


A  certain  «Italian  was  there, 
#^0  had  been  ambafTador  a^/ft 
the  king  of  Scotland  s  ke  had  a 
box  iu\\  of /ilver  vefl'els,  rings, 
cloth  and  filk  clothes. 


Would  not  he  compound 
with  the  fea  ? 

No,  £«/  he  defired  either  to 
perim  *w/A  his  beloved  riches, 
or  to  be  faved  together  with 
/Afz»  s  there} ore  he,  rejujed. 

Whztfaid  the  mailer  ? 

You  might,  for  us,  quoth  he,. 
periftr  alone  with  >'0#r  things  ; 
but  ft  is  not  fit  that  &/£  MJhould 
be  endangered  for  the  lake  {?/ 
jwftr  box,  otherwise  we  will 
thro\*  )•#&  headlong  *>?/<?  thejea, 
together  a/z'M  your  box, 

A  fpeech  /r#/y  failor  like  ! 

So  M<*  Italian  too  /«tfdfc  lofs  ; 
w\jking  many  <rt/*7  things  to 
thefe  above  <*##  below,  fAfli  he 
had  nulled  his  life  /0/0  barba- 
rous an  element  :  A  little  after, 
^i<?  zy.wafr.made  nothing •  mih'er 
/7  tfwr  prefents,/1?^/^  the  ropes, 
tort  away  the  fails. 


O  c  ilamity  ! 

There  agon. n  the  (&\\oi  comes 
'to  us. 

To  make  a  fpeech  ? 

B.  Sa- 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


B.  Salutat.  Amici, 
inquit,  tempus  hortatur 
ut  unufquiique  commen- 
dct  fe  Deo,  ac  prccparet 
{emorti.  Rogatusaqui- 
bufdam  non  imperitis 
nauticse  rei,  ad  quot  bo- 
ras crederet  fe  pojje  tueri 
navem,  negavit  fe  po fie 
polliceri  quid^uam,  fed 
non  polfe  ultra  tres  ho» 
ras. 

A.  Haec  concio  erat 
etidm  durior  priore* 

B.  Ubi  locutus  ejl 
hdtcfubet  omnesfunes 
incidi,  ac  malum  incidi 
ferra,  ufque  ad  thecam, 
cui  inferitur,  ac  devolvi 

fimul  cum  antennis   in 
mare, 

A.  Cur  hoc  ? 

B.  Quia  vtlo  fublato 
cut  lacero,  erat  oneri, 
non  ufui  ;  tota  fpes  erat 
in  clavo. 

A.  Quid  inter  ea  vec- 
tores  ? 

B.  Ibi  vidj/es  mifer- 
zmfacicm  rerum.  Naw 
^>canentesyi/^regina, 
implorabant  virginem 
rnatrem^  appellantes  earn 
ftellam  mans,  reginam 
&&li,  dominam  mundi, 
portam  falutis,  ac  blcrtlr 
dientes  illi  multis  aliis 
titulis ,quos Jacroz  li  terse 
nujquam  tnbuunt  Mi. 


He  falutes  us.  Friends,  fays 
he,  the  time  exhorts  that  every 
one  commend  himfeli  to  God, 
and  prepare  h\mk\i  for  death. 
Being  afked  by  fome  not  un- 
skilled in  the  Jailing  bufinefs, 
for  how  many  hours  he  believed 
he  could  maintain  the  /h?p,  he 
denied  that  he  could'  promife 
any  thing,  but  that  he  could  not 
above  three  hours. 

This  fpeech  was  <w?2  harder 
Ma??  the  former. 

When  he  had f aid  thisjie  <?r- 
ders  all  ^/z£  r#/^j  to  be  cut,  and 
the  maft  to  be  cut  with  a  faw, 
c/0/2  by  the  cafe,  into  which  it 
is  put,  and  to  be  tumbled,  to- 
gHhcr  with  the  fail  yards,  into 
the  fea. 

Why  this  ? 

Becaufe  the  fail  being  taken 
away  or  torn,  it  was   a  burden, 
j  not  of  ufe  ;  all  our  hope  *ra.nn 
the  helm. 

What  in  the  mean  time  did 
the  paffengers  ? 

There  you  would  have  fen  a 
m\ferab\cjace  of  things.  J  he 
Jailors,  finging,  God  Jave  you, 
O  queen,  implored  t^.e  virgin 
mother,  calling  her  the  flar  of 
the  fea,  the  queen  of  heaven,  la- 
dy ef  the  world  y  harbor  of  J  of e- 
ty,  and  flattering  her  with  many 
other  "*2/$W,  which  the  holy. 
fcriptures  no  where  attribute  to 
her. 

A.  Quid 


3 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


A.  Quid  \\\a.cu?n  ma- 
ri,  qua.  nunquam  navim 
gavit,  op i nor  ? 

B.  Venus  olim  agebat 
cur  am  nautarum,  quia 
credebatur  nata  ex  ma- 
il ;  quoniam  ea  defivit 
curare,  virgo  mater  eft 
fufiefta  lime  matri,  non 
virgini. 

A.  Ludis. 

B.  NonnulW  procumm 
bentes  in  tabulas  adora- 
bant  mare,  efFundentes 
quicquid  olei  crat  in  un- 
das,  blanditntes  illi  non 
aliter  quam  folemus  i- 
rato  principi. 

A.  Quid  aiebant  ? 

B.  O  clementifTimum 
mar  el  OgenerofifTimum 
m a  re !  O  form oii  (Tim  u m 
mare  !  mitefce,  ferva. 
Occinebant  multa  hu- 
jufcemodi/^r^  mari. 

A.  Ridicuia/^r/?r 
tio  !  Quid  ala  ? 

B.  Quidam  nihil  ali- 
ud  quam  vomebant, /?/<?- 
rique  nuncupabant  ?;<?/£. 
Aderat  quidam  Anglus, 
qui  promittebat  aureos 
monies  virgimWMng- 
amicac,  fi  attigiHet  ter- 
rain vivus.  Aln  promir 
tebant  mutt  a  ligno  cru- 
el s  quod  ejfet  in  tali  lo- 
co, alii  rui  fus  quod  ef- 
fet  -in   tali  loco.     Idem 

Ja&um    eft  de    virgine 


What  has  fhe  to  do  with  the 
kz,who  nzvevfailed,  I  believe? 

Venus  formerly  took  rare  ot 
the  failors,  becauje  (lie  was  be- 
lieved to  be  born  of  the  fea  ; 
becauje  (he  has  ceajed  to  take 
care,  the  virgin  mother  is  fub- 
ftttuted  to  this  mother,  not  a 
virgin. 

You  banter. 

Some  falling  down  upon  the 
/>0ar^.y,\vorfhipped  the  lea, pour- 
ing whatsoever  oil  ^r^  ^^zj, 
into  the  waves, flattering  it  #0 
other  wife  //taw  we  ufe  to  do  an 
angry  prince. 

What  did  they  fay  ?  ■■ 

O    mo  ft  merciful  /?#  /     O 

mod   noble  fea  !  O  mod  rich 
Jea  !  grow  mild,  favt  us.  They 

fung  many  things  of   this  kind 

to  the  deaf  fez. 

Ridiculous    fuperflition   ! 
what  did  others  ? 

Some  did  nothing  elfe  than 
vomit,  7110 jl  put  up*  vows. 
There  was  there  acertainF.ng- 
lifhman,  who  promifed  golden 
mountains  to  the  maid  o\  Wal- 
fingham,  \\  he  touched  land  a- 
live.  Others  promifed  viany 
things  to  the  wood  of  the  cro/s9 
Which  was  in  fuck  a  place,  oth- 
ers again  to  that  which  was  in 
fuch  a  place.  The  lame  was 
done  as  to  the  virgin  Mary:  who 
reigns  in  maay  i)  laces  f  and  ^<?y 
Maria 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


Maria  quce    regnat    in    think  the  vow  to   no   purpoje, 
multis  locis  et    putant    unlefs  you  cxprefs  the  place. 
votum  imtum>  nifi  ex- 


prunas  iocum. 

A.  Ridiculum  !  qua/i 
divi  non  habitant  in  ccc- 
lis. 

B.  Erant  qui  prorrnV 
terenty?  fore  Carthufia- 
nos<       Erat     nnus    qui 


Ridiculous  !  as  though  the 
faints  do  not  dwell  in  the   heav- 


ens. 


There  were  who  promifed 
that  they  would  be  Carthujians. 
There  was   one  who  promifed 


polliceretur  fe    aditnr-  that  he  zvould go  to  James,  who. 

urn  Jacobum,  qui  habit-  dwells  at  Compojteua,  barefoot 

at  Compq/ie/l&i  nuiispe-  and  head^   with  his  body   only 

dibus  et  capite,  corpore  covered   with  an    iron    coat  of 

tantum  \ei\ojerrta  Ion-  mail,  befides    this:  begging   his 

ca,  ad  hac   emendicato  meat* 
cibo. 

A.     Nemo    merninit  Did  nobody  mention  Chrift- 

Chriftophori  ?  op  her  ? 

B.  Audivi  unum  non  I  heard  one,r\o\.  without {m\\m 

fine  rifu,  qui  clara  voce,  ing,who  with  a  clear  voice,   left 

nznon  ex  a  u  diretu  r,  p  o  1  -  he  Jli  aula  not  he  hea  rd  prom  i  fe  d 

Jiceretur     Chrifiophoro,  Chrijlo  pher  jabo  is  at  Paris,  en 

qui  ^y?   Lutetian  injum-  the  top  of  a  church,  a  mountain 

»w  temple,   mens  verius  more  truly  than   <s  ftatue,  a  wax 

quarii    jlatua,    cereurn  candle  £j  £?£   ^zj-  he   was  him- 

tantum  quantus  rjfetip-  Jetf.     When    bawling    out  \.b\s 

je.       Curn      vociferans  as  hard  as  he  could,  /^   mad- 

hsec    quantum  -poterat,  cated  it  now  and  then  ;  /^  /A#£ 

incu'earet    identidem   ;  by  chance  flood  next,  known  to 

#&£  torte  ajlabat   proxi-  him,  touched  him   with  his  eU 

inus,  7z^^j   illi,    tetigit  bozo,  and  advifed  him,   have  a 

eum  cuhito,   ac  fubmon-  care   O/Aal  you     promife,   /i?r 

z^^,  Vide   tfzm/ poll  ice-  though  you  make  rt/2  auction  of 

aris,  etiamji\az\asaut~ti-  all  yourg^Wj,  you  will  not  be 


tf/z*?;?;    omnium   tuarum    able   to  pay.     Then    he     fays 

rerum,    non   fueris  fol-    with  a  x^oice,  ?20ct>  lower,  to  wit3 

ille   ??2-    left    Chrijiopher    fhould   hear, 


vend  us.     Turn 

quit  voce  jam  preffiore,    hold  your  tongue,  ycu  fool ;  do 

videlicity  ne  Chriftopho-   you    think   I  Jpeak    from   my 


rus 


io 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


rus  exaudiret,  Tact,  fa- 
tue  ;  an  cr ceils  me  lo- 
qui  ex  animo  ?  Si  fe- 
mel  contigero  terram, 
non  daturas  fum  ei  Jcm 
baceam  candelam. 

A.  O  era ffum  ingeni- 
u  m  I  fu  fp  ic  i  ofwffe  B  a  - 
tavum. 

B.  N  on  $  Jed  erat  Ze- 
I andus, 

A.  Miror  Paulum  A- 
poftolum  venffe  nuili 
in  mentem,  qui  naviga- 
vit  ipje  olim,   et    nave 

Jracta,  defilierit  in  ter- 
rain, nam  is  haud  igna- 
rus  ?;2a/z  <\\&\c\t  fuc cur m 
rere  miferis. 

B.  Erat  nulla  rnentio 
Pauli. 

A.  Precabantur  inte- 
rim ? 

•  B:  Certatim.  Alius 
canebat,  Jalve  regina  ; 
alius,  credo,  in  Deuni. 
Erant^ttz  habebant  quaff 
dem  pecutiares  preculas, 
non  dijjimiks  magicis, 
adver/us  pericute. 

A.  Ut  religio/os  affile- 
tin  Jacit  !  Sec  and  is  re- 
bus, nee  Deus  nee  divus 
vemt  in  mentem  :  0/zV 
tuinterca  f  nuncupabas 
vota  nulli  divorumf 

B.  Nequaquam. 
A.  Curz/fl  ? 


heart  ?  z/*  onee  7  touch  land,  7 
oj*7/  not  give  him  a  tallow  can- 
dle. 


0  grofs  zvit !  I  fufpeft  he 
<^fljaL)utchman. 

No,  buthe  was  a  Zealanderm 

1  wonder  that  Paul  the  A- 
poftle  ca?ne\nto  nobody's  mind, 
who  failed himfelj  former! y,and 
the  fhip  being  wrecked,  leaped 
out  upon  land;  for  A^not  be- 
ing ignorant  of  evil  has  learnt 
to Ju c cor  the  miferable. 

There  was  no  mention  of 
Paul 

Did  they  pray  in  the  mean 
time  ? 

Hard.  One  fung,  God  five 
you  O queen  ;  another,!  beiieVe 
in  God,  There  were  who  had 
Jcme  peculiar  prayers,  not  unm 
//^magical  ones,  againjl  dan- 
gers. 

How  religious  affliction  makes 
us  !  in  profperity,   neither  God 
nor  faint  comes  into  our  mind  : 
What  didyon  in  the  mean  tune  ? 
did  you  make  vows   to  none  of 
the  faints  ? 
Not  at  all. 
Why  fof 

B.  Quia 


NAUFRAGIUM, 


n 


B.  Quia  non  pacifcor 
cum  dwis.  Nam  quid 
eft  aliud  quam  contrac- 
tus juxiajormulam.  Do 
Ji  facies,  aut  faciam  fi 
facfes.  Dabo  cereum  Ji 
cnatem  ;  ibo  romam,  Ji 
ferves. 

A.  At  implorabas 
praefidium  alicujusdivi. 

B.  Ne  id  quidem. 

A.  Quamobrem  ? 

B.Quiactf/wm  eRJpa- 
tiofum.  Si  commendaro 
mtumfalutem  cui  divox 
puta  Sanclo  Petri,  0M& 
fortafle  audiet  primus, 
#W0d?  aftet  ojiio  j  priuf- 
quam  z7&  conveniat  Dc- 
um9  priufquam  exponat 
caufam  egojam,periero* 

A.  Quidjaciebas  igi- 
*ur  ? 

B.  Adibam  r£<7<?  pa- 
ttern ipjum,  diccnstNof 
tcr  pater,  qui  es  zrc  cce- 
lis.  JNemo  divorum 
audit  citius  illo,  aut  */<?- 
7?dtf  libentius  quod  pzti- 
tur. 

A.  Sed  interea  non 
confcientia  reclamabat 
tibi  ?  #0;*  verebaris  ap- 
pellare  ^w  patrem, 
?m  offenderas  tot  fee- 
leribus  ? 

B.  Ut  dfrcaTtt  ingenue, 
confcientia  deterrebat 
non  nihil ;  fed  mox  re- 


BecaufeVflfo  #0/  ^r^aznwith 
the  faints.  ¥  or  what  is  it  <?//* 
than  a  contract  according  to 
form?!  give  if  you  would  do,  or 
I  will  do  if  you  will  do.  I  will 
give  you  a  wax  candle  if  I  fwim 
out :  I  will  go  to  Rome,  if you 
fave  me. 

But  you  implored  the  protec- 
tion offome  faint. 

Not  ^^  indeed. 

Why  ? 

Becaufe  heaven  is  fpacious» 
If  7  recommend  my  fafety  to  a- 
ny  faint ^  fuppofe  /<?  &«W  Pe- 
ter, who  perhaps  will  hear  firft, 
becaufe  he  ftands  tf/  /^  door  ; 
before  he  goes  to  God,  before 
he  declares  my  cafe,  /  am  al- 
ready ruined* 

What  did  you  do  then  ? 

I  went  direclly  to  the  Father 
himfejj\  faying,  our  Father, 
which  art  in  heaven.  None  of 
the  faints  hears  fooner  than  he, 
or  gives  more  willingly  what  is 
afked. 

But  in  the  mean  time,  did  not 
your  confeience  cry  outagainft 
you  ?  were  you  not  afraid  to 
call  him  father  whom  you  had 
offended  withfo  many  crimes  ? 

That  I  may /peak  ingenuoufly, 

my  confeience   did   terrify  me  a 

little  ;  but  by  and  by  I  recover- 

cipiebam 


12 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


cipiebam  animum,  cogi- 
tans  ita  mecum  eft  nul- 
lus  pater  tarn  iratus  Al- 
io, £ftzft  G  vidtat  eum 
pericbtantem  in  torren- 
te  tWlacu,  ejiciat  arrep^ 
ium  capillis  in  ripam. 
i/zter  omnes  nullus  age- 
bat  /cr  tranquillius  ^/^^ 
quaedam  mulier,  cui  e- 
rat  infantu  us  in  finu, 
^f/«  laftabat. 

A.  Quid  ?.//*  * 

B.  Sola  nee  vocifere- 
batur,  nee  flebat,  nee 
pollicitabatur  :  tantum 
complexit  puellum9  pre* 
cabatur  taate.  Interea 
than  navis  illideretut  va- 
do  fubinde9  nauckrus 
metuens  ne  tota  joiveretur, 
cinxit  earn  rudentibus  a 
frora,  et  a  puppi. 

A.  O  mifera  prasfi- 
dia! 

B.  Interim  exoritur 
fenex  facrificus,  ftxa- 
ginta  annos  natus,  no- 
men  erat  Adamus  :  is 
abjeftis  vefiibus  uiquead 
indujtumt  abjeftis  etiam 
ocreis,  et  calceis  j*ffi*$ 
ut  omnes  pararmu*  nos 
itid.m.  ad  natandum.  At- 
que  ita  flans  in  medio 
navis  9  concionatus  eft 
nobis  ex  Gerfone  fum- 
qut  veritates  de  militate 
confltenai  ;  hortatus  om- 
nest  ut  auifaue  praeparar* 


ed  my  courage,  thinking  thus 
within  myfeif  ;  there  is  no 
Jdther,  fo  angry  with  a  fon,  but 
if  he  Jets  him  wt  danger  in  a 
torrent,  tfrlake,  Atf  would  throw 
him  out,  taken  by  the  hair,  up- 
on the  bank.  Among  all,  none 
behaved  himjdj  more  quietly 
than  a  certain  woman,  who  had 

#  <://?/</  in  her  boiom,  which  fhe 
fuckled. 

What  did  fhe? 

Sne  alone  neither  bawled- »0* 
wept,  wpr  promifed  ;  only  em- 
bracing fer  c£t&,  fte  prayedy?- 
ien  ly%  In  the  mean  time,^A  ifl 
the  fhip  was  k'.oikcd  a6ainfl  the 
bottom  rc/ifc.  and  then,  themafter 
fearing  left  itflcud  be  all  broke 
begirt  &  with  cables  at  the  head 
and  at  the  /tern, 

O  rniferable  helps  J 

In  the  mean  \\mzflarts  up  a» 
aged  prieft,y^(y  years  ^,  his 
ni'me  aw  Adam ;  ^  having 
caft  off  his  clothes  to  his  Jhirt9 
having  caft  off/ -kezvije  his  leath- 
er {lockings  and  (hoes,  bade  us 
all  prtpare  ourfelves  in  like 
manner  to  fwim.  And  fo  /land- 
ing in  the  middle  of  the  flip,  he 
preached    to  us  out   of  Gerfon, 

•  he  jive  truths  concerning  the  ufe- 
iulnefs  of  (onf effing  ,  exhorting 
all,  that  every  one  fhould  pre- 
pere  him/elf  both  for  life  and 
death.    There  was  prefent,  aljo 

rtt 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


*3 


retT?  et  vitce  et  morii. 
Aderat  et  quidam  Do- 
minicanus.  Conreffi 
funt/2?yqui  volebant. 

A.  Quid  tu? 

B.  Ego  videns  omnia 
plena  tumuhuSr  confef  us 

fum  tacite  .D<?0,damnans 
apud  eum  meam  injufti- 
tiam,  et  implorans  ejus 
mifericordiam. 

A.  Quo  migraturus 
es,  fi  periiffes  fie  ? 

B.  Committebarn  hoc 
Deojudici.  Nam  neque 
volebam  ejfe  judex  mei 
ipfius :  tamen  quadam 
bonafpes  interim  habe- 
batmeumanimu?n.'Dum 
Jikc  aguntur,  nauta  re- 
dit  ad  nos  lachrymans. 
Qui/que  parztfe,  inquit, 
nam  navis  non  erit  ufui 
nobis  ad  quartam  partem 
horce.  Nam  jam  con- 
vulfa  aliquot  locis,  hau- 
nt mare.  Paulo  port, 
naut  a  rznuncizhdiX  no  biS) 
fevidere  procul  facram 
tmnvn,  a  dhor  tans  ut  im* 
ploraremus  auxiliumdfc- 
vi,  quifquis  effet  praefes 
ejus  templi.  Omnes 
procumbunt,  et  orant 
ignotum  divum. 

A.  Si  compellajfes  no- 
m'mefortajes  audifTet. 

B.  Erat  ignotum.  In- 
terim   nauderus  dirigit 

B 


a    certain  Dominican.      They 
conieffed  to  thoje  that  would. 


What  did  you? 

I  feeing  all  places  full  of  tu-. 
mult,  confejfed  filently  to  God> 
condemning  before  him  7?/jy  un- 
righteoufnefs  #/?^  imploring /zz> 
mercy. 

Whither  would  you  have  gone% 
Wyou  had  died  fo  ? 

1  left  this  to  God  my  Judge. 
For  neither  would  I  be  the  Judge 
oj  myfelf:  yet  feme  good  hopes 
in  the  mean  time  poffjfed  my 
w?W.  Whilft  theje  things  are 
doing,  ihefailor  returns  /0  us 
weeping.  Let  every  one  pre- 
pare himftlft  fays  he,  for  the 
fhip  a;?//  /20/  be  of  ufe  to  z/J  for 
a  fourth  part  0/  #/&  hour.  For 
«0Z0  being  broke  til Jeveral plac- 
es, 2*  /a j  z/2  the  fea.  -^  /?/- 
/&  alter  the  Jailor  told  wi" 
that  he  faw  far  ofF  a  /acred  tur- 
ret, advi/ing  that  icejhould  im- 
plore the  ailiftanee  0/  the  faint, 
whofoever  t0£j-  the  prefident  0/ 
M#£  Church.  All  fall  down 
dW  pray  to  the  unknown  faint. 


If  you  hadfpoke  to  himbyhh 
name,  perhaps  he  would  have 
heard  you. 

It  was  unknown.  In  the  mean 

time  the  mafler  fteers  the  JJnp 

navem 


H 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


n&vem  jam  laceramjam 
combibentem  undas  undi- 
que^c plane  dilapfuram, 
ni  fuiffet  Juccincla  ru- 
dentibus,  co  quantum 
pote/L 

A.  Dura  conditio  re- 
rum. 

B.  Provecli  fumus  eo 
ut  incolce  ejus  loci  prof- 
picerent  nos  periclitan- 
tes  ;  ac  procurrentes  cq- 
tervatvn  in  extremum 
littus,  togis  fublatis,  ac 
galeris  imp o fins  in  lan- 
ceas,  invitab.ant  ad  f'efe  ; 
ac  brae  hi  is  jaclatis  in 
c  ce  I  u  m ,  /i'g  n  if  cab  a  nt  f e 
deplorare  no  ft  ram  j^r- 
tunam. 

A.Expeclo  quid  eve- 
nerit. 

B.  Jam  7**2  ;r  occupa- 
ver&C  totam  navim,  nt 
fuutri  eiiemus  «z/zi7d  tu- 
tiores  in  navi   quara  z« 

77^77*7. 

A.  Heic  conjugien- 
damerat  ^&facraimw 
ckoram. 

B.  Imo  ad  miferam. 
NautcE  exonerant  J'ca- 
pkam  aqua,  ac  demit-. 
tunt  in  mare.  ^  Omnes 
cortantur  conjicete  Ji 
in  banc,  nautis  recia- 
mantibus  magna  tumul- 
tu.  fcapham  non  eife  ca- 
pace  in  ta  n  tae  w^  llitudi  - 
??ff>  quifque   arriperet 


now  /077*,  now  drinking  in  the 
waters  <w*  all  /ides,  and  plainly 
ready  to  fall  in  pieces,  «jz/g/i  it 
had  been  gzr/  with  cables,//n//i- 
er  as  much  as  ^d  oj«. 

A  hard  condition  of  affairs. 

We  advanced  fojar,  that  /A* 
inhabitants  oi  that  ^/a££  faw  ^f 
in  danger  ;  and  running  out  in 
companies  to  th«  edge  of  the 
fhore,  with  their  coats  lilted  up, 
and  hats  £#£  upon  lances,  they 
invited  us  to  them  ;  and  with 
their  arms  tcjfed  up  towards 
heaven, Jignified  that  they  la- 
mented our Jortune. 

I  wait  to  know  what  happen- 
ed. 

Now  thejea  had  feized  the 
whole  (hip,  that  we  were  like 
to  be  no  fafer  in  thejhip  than 
?>z  tfiejea. 

Here  j'0?j  &^r<?  tojfe?  to  the 
holy  anchor. 

Nay,  to  the  miferable  one. 
The Jinlors  empty  the  boat  of 
the  water,  and  let  it  down  zw/c? 
thefea.  All  endeavor  to  throw 
themfelves  into  it,  the  Jailors  re- 
monftrating  againft  it  BJlM 
£*■<?**  tumult,  M^  */z*  foa*  was 
not  capable  of  fo  great  a  »»»- 
&rr  ;  that  every  one JJiculd take 
So  himicli   wka&fe  could  a??<af 

fibi 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


«5 


fibi  quf>d  pofTet  ac  nata- 
ret.  Acs  non  patieba- 
tur  lenta  confilia,  tf/Ztti' 
arripit  remum, alius  <:##- 
/ww  alius  alvenum,  alius 
Jitulam,  aiius  tabulam  : 
ac  quijque  rntentes/tttf 
prczndio,  commitlunt  j£ 
flufciibus. 

A.  Quid  interim  acci- 
dit  t7&  mulierculae,  ### 
fola  720;*  ejuldbat  ? 

B.  Ilia  pervenit  prima 
Omnium  ad  littus. 

A.  Quipotuit  ? 

B.  Impoiueramus  £- 
£tf*  rapandae  tabula;  et 
a/ligave ram  us  fie, ui  non 
poflet  facile  decidere  ; 
dedimus  illi  tabellam  in 
nianum,  #fctf  uteretur 
i>^£  remi  ;  tfc  precantes 
i^«<?,  e x  p  o  f u  i  m  a  s  r ??  yft/  c- 
/zij,  protundentesri/?/*?, 
ut  abeJJ'et  a  navi,  fcrcafc 
erat  periculums  ilia  te- 
w^j  infantulumAri/a  re- 
migabat  dextra. 

A.  O  virginem  ! 

B.  *Duxnja?n  nihil  Jw 
p'ereff?t,  quidam  avulfit 
ligrieatn  Jlaluam  virgi- 
nis  matris,]zm  putrem, 
at  que  excavatam  a  fori- 
cibus  <tf  romplexus  earn 
ccepit  natare. 

A.  Pervenit  fcapha 
incolumis  ? 

B.  Nulli  periere  pri* 
us, 


fwim.  T/r<?  M?w^  did  not  ad- 
mit//^^  counfels  ;  tftf£  takes  <ffc 
oar,  another  a  boat  hook,  anoth  • 
er  ajlick,  another  a  bucket,  a- 
nother  a  board  j  and  every  one 
refting  upon  their  /ccunfy, 
commit  theinfel  ves  to  the  waves , 


What  in  the  me&n  time   hap 
pened  to  that  poor  wotnan,^^ 
alone  did  not  cry  cut  f 

She  came  firft  oj  all  to  the 
fhore. 

How  could Jlit  ? 

We  had  fat  her  upon  a  h?.rA. 
board,  and  had  tied  her  fo,  that 
(he  could  not  eajily  fall  off;  tot 
gave  her  a  board  into  her  hand, 
r^AtfA  die  might  ufe  injlead  of 
an  oar,  and  wifhing  her  ziell, 
we  placed  her  upon  the  waves, 
fhrufting  her  forward  with  a 
pole,  xhditjhe  might  be  at  a  dif- 
t'ance  from  \he[h\p,Jrom  whence 
there  was  danger  :  fhe  ho/ding 
her  child  zutth  her  left  liana, 
rowed  zoith  her  ?  ight* 

O  flout  lafs  ! 
When  now  nothing  remained, 
one  pulled  down  a  wooden  im- 
age of  the  Virgin  Mother,  now 
rotten,  and  hollowed  by  the 
rats,  #W  embracing  it,  began 
tojwim. 

Did  the  boat  get /d/*^? 

None  a»w  /g/2  fooner. 


A.  Quo 


i5 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


A.  Quo  malo  fato  id 
jfaclum  tji  f 

B.  Priufquam  poffet 
liberarey^a  magna  na- 
vi,  fubverfa  ejl  lliius  va- 
ciliatione. 

A.  O  male  factum! 
guid  turn  ? 

B.  k.go,  dum  confulo 
cle  aliis,  pene  perieram. 

A;  Quo  paclo  ? 

B.  Quia  nihil  fupera- 
bat  apium  natationi. 
^  A.    IlUc^tra  fuif. 
iVnt  &/iz. 

B.  In  eo  articulo   re- 
rum,  maluijjan  vile/w 
ier,  quain  aureum  can- 
delabrum.    Tandem  ve- 
nit  t/i  men  tern,  circum- 
ipicienti,    dfe  naw  parte 
ma li  J  quoiuam  no n pote- 
■  ram.  ex i mere  earn  Jo/us, 
adfcifco  factum  :  ambo 
a  /? « z  ,r  z    mi  i  c     co  m  m  itt  z  - 
mus  nos  mari^  fie    id  e- 
go  tenerem  dextrum  co'- 
riu,    ille  Icevum.     Dum 
jacl*ba?nur{\c,  ille  facri- 
ficus  nauticus  conciona- 
tor  injecit/?  medium  z/z 
nofiros  humeros :  auteni 
£/#/     ingenti     cor  pore. 
lixclamamus,    ^/y?j    ille 
tertius  f    is  perdct    nos 
omnes;  */fe  c o n t r a z  w # z/ it 
placide,  litis  bono  ff»2- 
tne%  eft   fat    fpatii,  Z)^7i 
aderit  nobis. 
A.  Cur  ilk  cctpit  efTe 
,qt  tam  /?r>  ? 


By  what  z7/  fate  happened 
that  ? 

Before  it  could  deliver  it/elf 
from  the  great  fhip,  it  was  o- 
verft  by  its  tottering. 

O  ill  done  !  what  then  ? 

I,  whiljl.  I  take  care  of  other st 
had  well  nigh  perifhed. 

After  what  manner  ? 

Becaufe  nothing  was  left^fa 
for  fwimming. 

There  cork  would  have  been 
of  ff. 

In  \hdit j unci ure  cf  affairs  / 
had  rath' r  hav^  had  mean  cork 
than  a  golden  candleftick.  At 
lajl  it  came  z>?/0  my  mind,  as  I 
was  looking  about,  to  think  of 
the  low  part  of  the  majl  becaufe 
I  could  not  get  it  out  alone,  I 
take  a  companion  :  we  both 
leaning  upon  that,  commit  our- 
felves  to  tkefea,  (o  that  I  /fo/# 
the  right  £/zaf,  he  the  left. 
Whilft  zve  were  t off ed  about  io, 
that  prieft,  the  fta  chablain, 
threw  him/elfin  the  middle  up- 
on our JJwulders.  And  he  was 
of  a  huge  body*  We  cry  out 
who's  that  zVzzW  .?  he  toil  I  ruin 
us  all  :  He,  on  the  other  hand, 
/zyj,  fmoothly,  beoi  good  cour- 
age, there  is  room  enough,  God 
will  be  with  us. 


Why  did  he   begin  to  be  a 
fwimmer  fo  /#&  ? 

B.  Imo 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


B%  Imofuturus  erat 
cum  Dominicano  infca- 
pha  ;  nam  omnes  defe- 
ftbant  hoc  honoris  iili ; 
Jed  quanquam  confejji 
irant  invicem  in  navu 
famen  obliti  nefcio quid 
circumftantiarum,f0;y£- 
ientur  rurfus  in  ora  na- 
vis,  et  alter  imponit  ma- 
num  alteri  ;  interim 
Jcapha  perit  ;  nam  Ad- 
amus  narravithoc  mihi. 

A.  Quid  aclum  eji 
de  Dominicano  ? 

B.  Is,  ut  idem  narra- 
batz  implorata  ope  divo- 
rum,  abjeciis  veflibus, 
eommifit  fe  nudum  nata- 
tion!. 

A.  Quos  divds  frivo- 
cabat  r 

B.  Dominicum,  Tho- 
mam,  Vincentiuin  \  Jed 
confidebat  imprimis  Ca- 
tharine Senefi. 

A.  Chrift'us  non  ve- 
niebat  itti  in  mentem  ? 

B.  Ita  facrifcus  nar- 
rabat. 

A.  Enataffet  melius, 
fi  non  abjcajfet  facram 
cucullam  j  ea  depofita^ 
qui  potuit  Catharina  Se- 
nffis  agnofcere  turn  ? 
fed  perge  narrare  de  te. 

B.  Durn  volvebatnur 
z&\\\icjuxta  navitn  vo1- 
vcntem  fe  hue  aique  illuc 

B  2. 


Nay,  heJJieul5  have  beenwith 
the  Dominican  in  the  boat  \for 
z\\  gave  this  honor  to  him  ;  yW 
although  they  had  confffed  to 
one  another  in  thejlup^zi  hav- 
ing forgot  I  do  not  know  JrAtfrl 
cirtum  fiances,  they  corfejs 
again  w/torc  the  edge  of the  fhip  ; 
and  one  lays  his  hand  «/;07z  /fe 
0//z^r  ;  in  the  mean  titirp  rife 
£00/  is  loft  ;  /sr  Adam  /'0/tf 
this  to  me. 

What  became  of  the  Domin- 
ican ? 

He,  as  the  fame  teldme,  hav- 
ing implored  /Ac?  Ae/p  of  the 
faints,  having  cajt  off  his 
clothes,  c0#2?«.?7/£*/hiiiiIelf  #<«A- 
€</  to  fwiroming. 
Wh&tjaints  did  he  invoke  ? 

Domimck  ,Thoitia  s,  Vincent; 
but  he  trutted  chiejly  in  Catha- 
rine oj  Sens. 

£)id  not  Chfift  rawe  2/?/<?  &£* 

777777  tV  ? 

So  //:<f  ^nj^  told  me. 

He  would  have  fwam    out 
better,  if  he  had  not  thrown  off 
his  holy  carol ;  that  being  put 
off,    how   could    Catharine     of 
Sens  know  him  ?  but  gt>  on  to  . 
tell  of  your/elf. 

While   &4   j&JtfVfc   rozi'Ji.ng-  as 

yet  7J2V/2  the  (hip  rozuling  iffelf 

hither  and  thither %  at  the  plFaf- 

arbitrio 


i8 


NAUFRAGIUM. 


arbitt  \o  flufiui.i,,  clavus 
f  range  bat  ejus  femur, 
qui  tenebat  laevurn  cor- 
72u:fic  ille  revulfuseft. 
Sacrificus  precatus  illi 
cCternaHi  requiem,  fuc- 
ce flit  in  locum  illius&Ar 
h  or  tans  7^,  ut  tuer^r 
meum  cornu  magno  an* 
7?no  ac  mover  em  pedes 
flrenue.  Interim  pota- 
bamus  multumT^v^  a- 
quee.  Neptunus  teni- 
peraverat  ko^z'j  non 
tantum  falfum  balneum, 
icdetia?n  falfam  polio- 
nem  ;  quanquam/icn- 
jfoaj  raonftrahat  remcdi- 
urn  ei  rei. 

A.  Quid  obfecro  ? 

B.  (3uoties  wWa  oc- 
curreretw^'j,  \Wzoppo- 

Juit  occipiturn .ore  claa- 
fo. 

A.  Narras  #nAz    ftre- 
nuum  fen  e?n. 

B.  Ubi  natantes^  fie 
aliquamdiu,  promovifle- 
mus  jam  no  n  nihil,/?  m- 
ficus  quoni*m  erat  mirte 
procentatis,  inquit,<?ide 
bono  animo  ;  fentio  vd\ 
dam.  Ego,  wtf/z  <zw/wj- 
lperare  tantum  felicita- 
tis  mquam,  abfumus 
longius  a  Iittore,  quam^ 
ut  vadura  {wfperandum. 
\mofinquit,  fentio  f*r-' 
nmipedibus  :  eft,  in- 
quam,  fortafjis  aliquod 


ure  of  the  zuaves,  the  he\mbroie 
his  thigh,  who  vWaf  the  left  dftd?. 
So  £«  was  knocked  off.  The 
priejt  w idling  him  eternal  reft, 
fucceeded  m  his  place,  advifing 
me  that  IJhould  take  care  of  my 
end  with  great  courage,  and 
move  my  feet  jlrenuoufly.  In 
the  mean  time  zue  drank  much 
fait  water.  Neptune  had  mixed 
for  us  not  only  a  fait  bath,  but 
a//2>  a  fait  drink,  though  the 
prie/l  (hewed  a  remedy  for  that 
thing. 


.     What,  /  befeech  you  ? 

As  oft  as  a  wave  rati  us,  he 
oppofd  the  ba'ckfideot  his  head 
with  his  mouth  fhut.  • 

You  tell  me  of  a  flout  old 
fellow. 

When  fwimming  thus  fome 
time,  we  had  advanced  now 
fomeuYing,  the  priejt,  becaufe 
he  was  of  wonderful  tallnefs% 
fays,  be  of  good  courage,  I  feel 
&  bottom.  I  W0*  ^nw^  to 
hope  for /0  02*0$  happinefs,y^y 
we  at e  farther  from  the  more/ 
//zdw  that  *A*  bottom  is  to  be 
hoped  for.  Nay,  fays  he,  I 
perceive  earth  with  my  feet. 
//  is,  fay  I,  perhaps  fome  0/" 
*&  boxes,  which  Md  ^/?fl  has 
tumbled  hither:  Nay;y^i  4e?f 
tfcnniis% 


NAUFRAG1UM. 


*9 


efcriniis,  quod  mare  de- 
volvit  hue  :  Imo,  inquit, 
fentio  plane  terram 
Jcqipiu  digitorum*  Cum 
nataffemus  adhuc  ali- 
quandiu,  ac  fentiret  va- 
dum  rurfus,  tufac,  in- 
quit,  quod  videtur  tibi 
optimum  faclu,  ego  ce- 
do  tibi  totum  malum,  et 
credo  me  v  ado,  fi??iu  I  que 
expe£lato  dece[fu  fluc- 
Xuum, /quutus  e/i  pedi- 
bus  quanto  curfu  potuit. 
Run'us  undis  accidenti- 
b\is  complexusxitnxmqnt 
genu  unaque  manu,  ob- 
nitebatur  fluclibus,  oc- 
cultans  fefe  fub  undis, 
quemddmodum  mergi  et 
anates  folent  »  rurfus 
fluclu  abeunte,  promica- 
bat  et  currtbat.  Ego 
videns  hoc  fuccedere  illi 
Jiim  imitatus.  Stabant 
in  arena,  qui  fulciebant 
fe  adverjus  impeturn 
undarum,  prae  Iongis 
haflilibus  porreclis  in- 
ter fe,  robufli  viri,  et 
affueti  flufiibus,  fie  ut 
ultimus  porrigeret  haft- 
um  adnatanti  ;  ea  con- 
tafta,  omnibus  recipien- 
tibus/*ad  littus,  pertra- 
kebatur  tuto  injiccum. 
Aliquot  Jervatijunth&c 
ope. 

A.  Quot  ? 

B,  Septern.    Verum 


I  perceive  plainly  the  earth 
with  the  /crate  king  of  my  toes. 
When  we  had  fwam  as  yet  fome 
time,  and  he  perceived  the  bot? 
torn  again.  Do  you,  faith  he, 
what  Teems  to  you  be  ft  to  be 
done  j  I  give  you  the  whole 
maft,    and  truft    my  ft  If  \o   the 

bottom,    £tfd    £/    /^   /#772£    ft|g£ 

having  vraited  the  going  in  ot 
the  waves,  he  follows  on  his  feet 
zw'M  as  great  pace  jj  ^  £<?«/</. 
Again  M^  waves  coming  on, 
embracing  both  /4/z^j  with  both 
hands,  he  oppofed  /A<?  wavesf 
hiding  hitnfelf  under  the  water, 
as  your  fea  guilsaW  ducks  ufe 
to  do  s  again  the  wave  going 
back,  he  /prang  out  and  ran. 
\,  feeing  this, Jucceed  with  him, 
imitated  it.  There  flood  en 
the  /and,  who  propped  them- 
felves  again/  the  force  of  the 
waves,  with  long  /w/W  flretch- 
ed  between  them,  flrong  ??ien,and 
u/ed  to  the  waves,  Jo  that  ifa 
/a//  held  a  pole  to  hjm  that 
fwam  towards  him  ;  that  being, 
touched,  all  betaking  them/elves 
to  the  fhore,  he  was  drawn  tate* 
ly  on  dry  ground.  Some  were 
faved  by  this  means. 


How  many  ? 
Seven;  Z?#/  two  ofthfe  faint- 
duo 


to 


NAlftKAGWM. 


duo  ex  his  foiutrfunt  it- 
pore,  admoti  igfti. 

A.  Quot  erartis  in  na* 
vi  ? 

B.  Quinquaginta  *c- 
lo. 

A.  O  fevum  mare  ! 
faltem  juijfet  contentum 
decimis,  quae  Jnfficiunt 
facefdofibus  ;  reddedat 
lam  paucos  ex  tanto  na- 
xftero  ? 

B.  Ibi  experti  fumvs 
incredibilem  humamta* 
te?n  gentis,  fuppeditan* 
its  nobis  o?nnia  miraa- 
lacrxtate,  liofpiti am.  ig- 
nem,  cibum,  vefles,  viat- 
icum. 

A.  Quxgens  erat  ? 

B.  Hollandica. 

A.  Nihil  humaiiior 
ifta, f «stamen  cinBafit 
fefis  nationibus.  Non 
repetes  neptunufn  poft- 
hac,  opinor. 

B.  Non  nifi  Deus  a- 
*&7rt<2£  fanam  mentern 
?nihi. 

A.  Et  *£<?'  malim  au- 
dit e  tales-  jabut&s  quzm 
experire. 


ed  away  Kfc'lft  iffc  twlf toM|fe6mg 

fet  by  the  fire. 

How  rnany  a/effc  >e?w  in  the 
fliip  ? 

fifty  «]gA/. 

O  cruel  fea  1  at  lea  ft  :V  ww£4/ 
Adi^  £cr#  content  with  the 
tithes,  vthxch  Jufficeihe  priefts  ; 
did  it  return  fo  few  out  of /^ 
graz/  a  number  ? 

There  we  experienced  the  in- 
credible humanity  of  the  nation, 
furmjliing  us  rift/8  all  things 
with  wonderful  cheer fulnejSy 
lodging,J?r<r,  meat,  clothes , pro- 
visions for  our  way  home. 

What  fta/z<?7z  was  it  ? 

Holland. 

There  is  none  more  cit/ihhzn 
that,  though  yet  ft  be  fur  round- 
ed With,  favage  nations.  You 
will  not  go  again  to  fea  hereaf- 
ter, Ifuppofe. 

Not  unlefsGod  tdkcaivay  mf 
wits  from  vie. 

And  /  had"  rather  hear  fuch 
ft  dries,  than  rffctffo  /fotfi  £y  expe- 
rience. 


^^4###^fii^#fe 


^<e» 


DIVERSORIA. 


A./^>UR  ita  vifum  ejl 

V^pJerifque  commo- 
rari  biduam  aut  tridu- 
um  Lugduni  ?  Ego  in- 
grejfus  nmexi Jeme  I  ,non 
conquiefco,  donee  per- 
venero  quo  conftitui. 

B.  Imo,  ego  admiror 
quenquam  poffe  avelli 
illinc. 

Ar.  Quamobrem  tan» 
dem  ? 

B.Ouia  Hlic  eh  locus 
unde  Jocii  UlyiTis  non 
poterant  avelli  ;  illic 
S irenes.  Nemo  trafita- 
tur  melius  fuae  do  mi, 
quarn  zV/zV  i:«  pando- 
cheo. 

A.  Quid  Jc? 

B.  Aliqua  mulier  af- 
tabat  menjk  kmper, qua: 
exhilara'ret  convivas/#- 
riflfm  ac  leponbus.  Pri- 
mum  mater  fa  nihas  ad- 
ibat,  ^z/#  falutabaty«- 
fo/zj'  nos  ^  hilares,  <?£ 
boniconfulere^zzadfap- 
poneretur.  Film  fuc- 
cedebat  0&zVj     elegans 


WHY  afo<?j  it  feem  good  to 
mo  ft  people  /6»  yZay  two 
days  or  three  #/  Lyons  ?  I  A^c/- 
2»^g"  entered  upon  a  journey 
<?#££,  do  not  reft,  till  I  come 
whither  Idefigned. 

Nay  /  wonder  that  any  one 
can  be  got  from  thence. 

What  for  at  length  ? 

Becaufe  there  is  the  place, 
from  whence  the  companions 
of  Ulyffes  could  not  be  drawn 
away  ;  there  are  the  Sirens. 
No  body  is  treated  better  at  his 
own  homei  than  //zen?  in  an  inn. 

What  is  done  ? 

Some  woman  flood  by/A*  fti* 
ble  always  to  divert  the  com- 
pany with  wit  and  drollery. 
Yiill,  the  good  woman  oj  the 
houfe  came  to  us,  who  faluted 
us,  bidding  us  be  merry,  and 
take  in  good  part  what  was 
fet  before  us.  The  daughter 
fu cceeded  her,  a  neat  woman, 
oi  humor  and  tongue  Jo  mer- 
mulier 


22 


D1VERSORIA. 


mullet,  moribus  ac  lin- 
gua adeo  feftivis,  ut 
poffet  exkilarareCdXo- 
nem  ipfum.  Nee  con- 
fabulantur  tit  cum  ig- 
notis  hofpitibus,  fed  ve- 
lut  cum  ohm  notis  et 
familiar  ib  us. 

A.  Agnofco  humani- 
tatem  Gallicae  gentis. 

B.  Quoniam  autem 
?7/#  non  poterant  adeffe 
femper,  quod  muniaafo- 
mejtica  effent  obtunda> 
ac  r  eh  qui  con  vivas  con- 

falutandi,  quaedam  pu- 
ella  adftabat  continen- 
terf  inftru&a  ad  omnes 

focos.  Una  erat  fatis 
excip ien  dis  o m  n  i  u m  ja  - 
cults  :  hasc  Jujhnebat 
fabulam,  donee  fiiia  re- 
al ret  ;  nam  mater  erat 
natu  grandior. 

A.  Sed  qualis  erat 
apparatus tandem;  «(2W 
venter  non  expletur  fa- 
bulis. 

B.  Profefto  lautc,  «f 
^0  miror  zY/tfj"  pofle 
accipere  hofpites  tarn 
vili  :  rurfus  convivio 
peraclo,  alunt  hominem 
\t^\A\s  Jab  v  lis,  ne  ^a^ 
taedii  obreperet.  Vide- 
bar  ?;zz/iz  effe  ^^z?#  non 
pertgrir 


ry,  Ma/  me  might  divert  t]!ato 
himfelf.  Nor  dfo  M^y  talk  as 
ewVA  unknown  gue/ls,  but  jj 
with  people  formerly  known  to 
them,  and  familiar friends. 


I  perceive  M*  civility  of  the 
French  nation* 

But  becaufe  //jfy  could  not 
^  prefent  always,  becaufe  the 
bufinefs  0/"/^  hotife  was  /0  fo 
minded,and  the  rejioi theguefts 
/0  £<?  faluted,  a  certain  £*W 
flood  by  conjlantly  furnifhed 
for  all  jejls.  She  alone  zfa.r 
fufficient  to  receive  all  M^?> 
d^r^  ;  She  kept  up  the  farce, 
till  the  daughter  returned  ;  for 
*/z<?  mother  was  elderly. 


But  o/Aa/  was  yourprovifion 
at  laft  ?  y^r  the  belly  zj   ft?* 
j6//<ra?  with  tales. 

Truly  dainty,  that  /  wonder 
that  they  can  entertain  guefts/0 
cheap  :  /fjam  the  feaft  totf£ 
ercdW  they  treat  #  man  with 
pretty  f  cries,  left  <z;ry  ^ztf^  of 
wearinefs  Jfwuld  creep  upon 
him.  1  leemed  to  myjelj  to  be 
#*  home$  not  abroad. 

A.  Quid 


DIVERSORIA. 


A.  Quid  fatlum  eft 
in  cubiculis  ? 

B.  Illic  aderant  ali- 
quot puelloz  nufquara 
non,  ridentes,  lafcivien- 
tesju/itantes :  ultro  ro- 
gabant,  fi  habuerimus 
quid  vejlitumfordida- 
rum,  lavabant  eas,  ac 
reddebant.  Quid  mul- 
tis  ?  videbamus  nihil 
illic  practer  puellas  ac 
mulieres, nid  injiabulo, 
quanquam  puellce  ir- 
rumpebant  et  hue  y?^- 
quenter.  Compkttun- 
tur  abeuntes,  ac  dimit- 
tunt  tanto  ajfeclu ,  quafi 
0/?2/2£j  eilentyr^/r^i,aut 
propinquce  cognationis. 

A.  Fortaffis  ijli  mores 
decent  Gallos  :  ?&ores 
Germanise  arrident mi- 
ni magis,utpote  mafcu- 
li. 

B.  Nunquam  conti- 
git  mihi  videre  Germa- 
mam  :  quare,  quajo  te, 
ne  gravare  commemo- 
tari,  quibus  modis  ac- 
cipiant  hofpitem. 

A.  Nefcio  an  fit  uii- 
quetzdem ratio  tra&an- 
di  :  Narrabc  quod  ego 
vidi.  Nemo  Jalutat 
advenientem,  ne  vide- 
antur  ambire  hofpitem. 


What     was    done   in   the 
chambers  ? 

There  were  tome  girls  every 
where,  laughing ,  wantoning. 
playing  :  Of  their  own  accord 
they  afked  us,  if  we  had  any  joul 
clothes  ;  they  warned  them,  and 
gave  us  them  again.  What  needs 
many  words  ?  we  Jaw  nothing 
there  befides  girls  and  women, 
but  in  thejlable,  although  the 
girls  broke  in  too  hither  fre- 
quently. They  embrace  men 
departing,  and  difmifs  them 
with  fo  much  affetlion,  as  if 
they  all  were  their  brothers ,  or 
oj  near  relation. 


Perhaps  thofe  manners  become 
the  French  :  The  manners  of 
Germany  pleaje  me  more,  as 
being  majculine. 

It  never  happened  to  me  to 
feeGermany:  Wherefore,/ pray 
you,do  notthink  much  to  relate 
after  what  manner  they  enter- 
tain a  gueft. 

I  know  not  whether  there  be 
every  wliere  the  fame  manner  of 
treatment.  /  zvill  tell  what  / 
havefeen.  Nobody  falutes  a 
man  upon  his  coming,  lejl  they 
may  feern  to  court  a  gueft. 
Nam 


DIVERSORIA. 


Nam  exiftimant  id  for- 
didum,  et  indignum 
Germanica  feveritate* 
Ubi  inclamaveris  diu, 
tandem  aiiquis  profert 
caput  ^zxjtnejlram<£.[- 
tuarii  (nam  degunt  in 
his  fere  if  que  ad  asfti- 
vum  fol/HtiumJ  non  al- 
iter  quam  teftudo  prof- 
picit  e  tefa.  Is  eft  ro- 
gandus,  an  liceat  diver- 

fari\\\\z.  Si  non  ren- 
uit, intelligis  locum  da- 
ri :  commonllrat  manu 
mota  rogantibus  ubi  fit 

flabulum.  II lie  licet  ti- 
bi  traRare  tuum  equum 
tuo  more,    nam    nullus 

Jamulus  ad  mo  vet  ma- 
num.  Si  fit  celebrius 
diverforium,  ibi famu- 
lus commontlrQjlabu- 
/&7/2,atque  etiam  locum 
minune  commodum  e- 
quo.  Nam  fervant 
commodiora  Venturis 
prsefertim  nobihbus.  Si 
caufers  quid,  audis  Ha- 
timjiinqn  placet  qucere 
aliud  diver jorium.  Prae- 
bentfanum  in  urbibus 
agre  et  parce,  nee  ven- 
dunt  multo  minor  is  ^ 
quam  avenam  ipfam. 
tlbi  confultum  eft  equo 
commigxas  tot  us  in  hy- 


For  they  think  that  mean,  and 
unworthy  of  the  German  grav- 
ity. When  you  have  called  a 
long  time,  at  laft  fome  body  puts 
hi s  head  through  the  window 
of  a  ftove,  (for  they  li/e  in 
them  almoft  till  the  Summer 
SolfliceJ  no  other  wife  than  a 
/nail  looks  0^  of  itsflielL  He 
zj"  to  be  afked,  whether  you 
may  nzrc  there.  If  he  does 
not  refufe,  you  under/land  a 
place  2J»  allowed  you.  He 
fhews  ojzVA  his  hand  moved,  to 
thofe  that  afk  where  the  fable 
is.  There  you  may  manage 
your  horfe  after  your  manner. 
For  no  fer van t puts  to  a  hand. 
If  it  be  a  famous  Inn,  there  a 
fervant  fhews  the  fable,  and 
tf^ft,  a  place  720/  at  all  conven- 
ient  for  a  horfe.  For  they  keep 
the  more  convenient  for  thofe 
that  are  to  come,  efpecially 
Noblemen,  li you  fnd  fault 
with  any  thing,  you  hear  pref- 
ently,  iff  it  do  not  pleafe  you, 
feek  another  inn.  They  afford 
you  hay  in  the  cities  with  diffi- 
culty, and  Jpartngly,  nor  do 
they  fell  it  for  much  lefs  than 
tftf/j*  themfelves.  When  pro- 
vifion  is  made^r  your  horfe> 
you  go  # //  together  into  a  ftove, 
tw/A  your  boots,  baggage% 
dirt,  77/dtf  is  one  common  to  all. 

pocauflum 


DIVERSORIA. 


*5 


pocauftum,  cum  ocreis, 
/arcinis,  Into.  Id  efl  u- 
num  coinmune  omnibus. 
B.  Apud  Gallos  de- 
fignant  cubicula,  ubi 
exuant  fefe,  extergant, 
calefaciant,  aut  quief- 
cant  etiam,  fi  libeat. 

A.  Hie  nihil  tale.  In 
hypocauflo  exuis  ocre- 
tt%induis  calceos.  52  vis, 
mutas  indufium  ;  fuf 
pendis  veftes  madidas 
pluvia  juxta  hypocauf- 
tum ;  ipfe  admoves  te 
ut  ficcas.  EJl  et  tf<7«tf 
parata,y?  libeat,  lavare 
ma.nus;  fed  ita  munda 
plerumque,  ut  alia  0- 
##a  fit  quxrenda  tibi, 
^#tf  abluas  €<z/«  lotio- 
nem. 

B.  Laudo  vivos  ef- 
fceminatos  nullis  deli- 
ciis. 

A.  Quodji  tu  <z/>j£#- 
im  ad  quartam  ho  ram 
a  meridie,  tamen  non 
cannabis  <2«/e  nonam,<S? 
nonnunquam  decimam. 

B.  Quamobrem  ? 

A.  Apparant  nihil, 
nifi  videant  omnes,  ut 
miniftrent  omnibus  ea- 
dem  opera. 

B.  Quaerunt  compen- 
dium* 

c 


Among  £/$£  French  they  fhew 

people  chamber sjHhzxQthey  may 

Jlrip  themfelves,   wipe,    warm 

themfelves,  or  reft  too \  if  they 

pleafe. 

Here's  nofuch  thing.  In  the 
Rove  you  put  off'  your  boots, 
put  on  fhoes.  If  you  will^ou 
change  your  fhirt ;  you  hang 
up  your  clothes,  wet  with  rain, 
nigh  the  ftove  ;  you  place 
yourfelf  by  it,  that  you  may 
dry.  jT/for*  is  alfo  wtfter  ready, 
2/  you  pleafe  to  wajli  your 
hands;  but  fo  c/^#  for  the 
moft  part,  that  other  water  is 
/<?  ^  fought  by  you,  ^2/A 
which  you  may  wafh  off  //W 
wafliing. 

I  commend  the  men  effemi- 
nated with  no  delicacies. 

But  if  you  arrive  at  the 
fourth  hour  after  noon,  yet  you 
will  not  fup  before  the  ninth, 
and  fometimes  the  tenth. 

What  for? 

They  provide  nothing, nn\tU 
they  fee  all,  that  they  may 
ferve  all  with  the  fame  trou* 
ble. 

They  feek  thefhortefl  way. 

A,  Tene 


*6 


D1VERRS0RIA. 


A.  Tenes.  Itaque 
frequenter  otloginta 
aut  nonaginta conveni- 
unt  in  idem  hypocauj- 
turn,  pedites,  equites, 
negotiatores,  nauta,a\i- 
rigae,   agricolce,    pueri, 

fcemince,  fani,  cegroti. 

B.  llihuc  eft  vere  c<z- 
nobium. 

A.  Alius  z^peftit 
caput,  alius  abjlergit 
fudorem,  alius  repur- 
gat  perones  aut  ocreas, 
alius  etuclat  allium. 
Quid  multis  ?  Eft  non 
minor  confufio  ibi  Hn- 
guarum  et  perfonarum 
quam  0/m  in  turri  j?a- 
fo/fc  Quodj£  confpex- 
erint  ^u^w  peregrinse 
gentis,  qui  proefeforet 
rionnihil  dignitatis  cul- 
tu,  omnes  funt  intenti 
in  hunc,  contemplantes 
oculis  defixis,  quafi  #/- 
iquod  novum  genus  an- 
imantis  adveclum  fit  ex 
Africa.  ^<&<?  w£  poft- 
quam  accubuerint,  ad- 
fpiciantf0«fzwd/z&r,vul- 
tu  rejlexo  in  tergum  ; 
«£<;  dimoveant  oculos, 
immemores  a^z. 

A.  Romae,  Lutetice, 
ac  Venetice,  nemo  mira- 
tur  quidquam. 


You  have  it.  Wherefore 
frequently  eighty  or  ninety 
meet  zw/p  the  hmefiove,  foot- 
men,    horfemen,      tradefmen, 

Jailors,  coachmen,  hujband* 
men,  boys,  women,  found  iolks, 

fickfolks. 

That  w  really  /zt/zwj  tVz  <T0w 
?non. 

One  M*r£  combs  Azj  &*a</, 
another  wipes  off  fweat,  anoth» 
er  cleans  his  winter  fihoes  or 
boots,  another  belches  up  gar- 
lick.  What  needs  many  words? 
There  is  no  lefs  conjufionxhexe. 
oj  tongues  and  perjons,  than 
formerly  in  the  tower  of  Ba* 
beL  But  if  they  fee  anyone 
of  a  foreign  nation,  who  makes 
fhew  0/Tomething  of  dignityby 
his  drefs,  #//  are  z'nfctt/  upon 
him,  viewing  him  with  their 
eyes  fix t,  as  iifome  new  kind 
of  animal  a^J  brought  out  of 
Africa.  S0  Mtf/  after  they  have 
Jat  down,  they  look  at  him 
continually,  with  their  face 
turned  backward  ;  nor  do  they 
take  off  their  eyes,  being  un- 
mindful of  their  meat. 


At  Rome,  Paris,  and  Venice9 
no  body  xoonders  At  any  thing» 

A,  Interim 


D1VERSOR1A, 


as 


V 


A.  Interim  eft  nefas 
tibi,  pofcere  quidquam. 
\Jb\ja?n  eft  multa  vej- 
pcra>  nee  plures  expec- 
tantur  \zx\\.ux\,[enex  fa- 
mulus prodit  cana  ^r- 
&j,  tonfo  capita,  torvo 
vultu>  fordido  vejlitu. 

B.  Oportebat  ^/<?j 
efle  a  poculis  Romanis 
Cardinalibus. 

A.  Is  circumaclis  o- 
culis,  dinumerat  tacite 
y«0/  fint  ^  hypocaujlo  : 
quo  p  lures  \\AttadtJfe, 
hoc  vehementius  hypo- 
cauftum  accenditur,  e- 
tiam  fi  alio  qui  {o\Jit  mo- 
leftus  cejlu.  Hsec  g/? 
praecipua  pars  bonae 
traclationis,  fi  omnes 
diffluant  J'udore.  Si 
^^z;  non  ajfuetus  vapo- 
ri,  aperiat  rlmam  fenes- 
tra, ne  prafocetur, pro- 
tinus  audit,  claude.  *SV 
refpondeas,  Ar0tt  j£- 
ro,  audis,  quare  igitur 
alxud  diverforium. 

B.  Atque  nihil  vide- 
tur  periculofius,  quam 
tarn  multos  haujurum 
ejfe  eundem  vaporem, 
maxime corpore  refolu- 
to,  atque  hie  capturum 
ejfe  cibum,  et  commo- 
ratura  iri  complur&sho- 


In  the  mean  time  it  is  un- 
lawful/^ you  to  call  for  any 
thing.  When  now  it  is  laie 
in  the  evening,  and  no  more 
are  ex  peeled  to  come,  an  old 
fervant  comes  out  with  a  hoary 
beard,  fhorn  /zW,  grim  /w& 
mean  clothes. 

It  behoved  y&ofc  to  be  cup- 
bearers to  the  Roman  Cardinals. 

He  having  cafl  about  his 
eyes.ra^tf??^  filently  how  many 
there  are  z#  thejlove  :  By  how- 
much  the  more  he  fees  pre/ent, 
by  fo  much  the  more  violently 
the  flove  is  heated,  although 
otherwije  the  fun  be  trouble- 
forne  by  his  heat.  This  is  the 
greateA  part  of  good  treatment, 
if  all  run  down  with  ]w  eat.  If 
tf>2^  <???£  not  accuftomed  to  the 
heat,  0^£#  a  chink  0/^  window 
left  /^  be Jlijled,  immediately 
he  hears,  {hut  it.  //  you  an- 
iwer,  /  cannot  endure,  you 
hear,  [eek  then  another  inn. 


But  nothing  feems  w^r^  */##- 
gerous,  than  that  jfo  many 
Jhould  take  in  the  fame  vapor ; 
efpecially  the  body  being  open, 
#/?*/  here  take  meat,  «tz^  ftay 
feveral  hours,  For  now  / 
omit  Garlic  Belches,  and  //-/? 
blajl   of    the     belly,  Jiinking 

ras 


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DIVERSORIA, 


ras.  Nam  jam  omitto 
alliatos  rutlus,  et  fla- 
turn  ventris,  putres  ha- 
Jitus  :  Sunt  multi  qui 
laborant  occultis  mor- 
tis, et  omnis  morbus 
Jiabet  fuum  contagium. 
Certe  fplerique  habent 
Hifpanicam  fcabiem, 
iivc,  ut  quidam  vocant 
Gallicam,  cum  fit  com- 
munis omnibus  nation- 
ibus.  Opinor  effe  non 
multo  minus periculi ab 
his,  quam  leprojis.  Jam 
fa  divina  quantum  ^?/1 
criminis  fit  z/z  pejlilen- 
tia. 

A.  Suntfortes  viri, 
r identic  negligunt  ifta. 

B.  Sed  interim   funt 
fortes  periculo    multo- 

rum. 

A.  Quid^/anaj  ?  fie 
affueverunt  ;  et  £/?  con- 
it antis  animi  non  dfc/^ 
cedere  ab  inllitutis. 

B.  Atqui  d/zte  vigin- 
ti  quinque  annos,  nihil 
£r#/  receptius  tf^z/a? 
Brabantos  ^zz^w  publi- 
co thermaz ;  ha?  wwrtc 
frigent  ubique  ;  nam 
/^f<2  fcabies  docuit  nos 
abf liner  e. 

A.  Sed  flat/a  camera: 


breaths.  77z£r£  arc  many,<^/z0 
are  troubled  with  fecrec  difeaf- 
es,  £#tff  every  diflemper  has  z'/.f 
inteclion.  Certainly  moft  have 
the  Spanifh  />0#,  or,  «j-  fome 
ca//  2V  the  French,  though  it 
be  comynon  to  all  nations.  I 
think  //z^n?  ij  nol  war  A  lefs 
danger  from  M^/<r  than  lepers. 
Now  dfo  ^0&  <g^A  now  much 
danger  there  is  2«  M^  plague* 


They  ^xt  flout  fellows,  ^y 
/az/gi  a/,  and  neglect  thofe 
things. 

But  z;z  the  mean  time  they 
are  flout  at  the  hazard  0/^  ma- 
ny. 

What  can  you  do  ?  So  they 
have  been  ufedy  and  2*  is  the 
part  of  a  conftant  ;?22W  not  to 
depart  from  old  cufloras. 

But  tzcenty  Jive  years  ago, 
nothing  was  more  common  a~ 
mongjt  the  Brabanti,  than  pub- 
lic baths ;  thofe  now  are  out 
of  ufe  every  where ;  for  the 
new  pox  has  taught  us  to  ab* 
Jlazn. 


But  hear  the   reft. 


After- 
pofi 


DIVERSORIA. 


pdft  ille  barbatus  Ga- 
nymedes  redit  ac  infler- 
nit  men  fas  linteis  quot 
putat  effefatis  illi  nu- 
mero.  Sed  0  immor- 
talem  Deum  !  quam 
non  Milefiis.  Diceres 
cannabea  detrafta  exan- 
tennis.  Nam  deflinavit 
ad  minimum  oclo  con- 
vivas  unicuique  men- 
fbe.  Jam  quibus  pa- 
trius  mos  efi  notus,  ac- 
cumbitnt,  ubi  libitum 
fuerit  cuique*  Nam 
eft  nullum  difcrimen 
inter  pauperem  et  divi- 
tern,  interhevum  et  fer- 
vum. 

B.  Haec  tjl  \Wavetus 
aequalitas,  quam  nunc 
tyrannis  fubmovit  e  vi- 
ta. Sic  opinor  Chrif- 
tum  vixijfe  cum  Difci- 
pulis. 

A,  Poflquam  omnes 
accubuerunt, rurfum  il- 
le torvus  Ganymedes 
prodit,  ac  denuo  di nu- 
meral y#£  fodalitia. 
Mox  reverfus,  apponit 
fingulis  ligneum  pina- 
cium,  et  cochleare  jfoc- 
tum  ex  eodem  argento, 
deinde  cyathum  vitre- 
um ,  aliq.u  a  nto  po  ft  pa  - 
n<m:  Eurn  qui/que  ce- 
C  * 


wards  that  bearded  Ganymede 
returns,  and  fpreads  the  tables 
with  cloths,  as  many  as  he 
thinks  to  befufficient  for  that 
number.  But  0  immortal 
God  !  /&0Z*;  j^r  /r^^  £***,$ 
yW  /  you  would  fay  they  were 
canvafs  taken  down  from  the 
fail  yards.  For  he  defigned  at 
leaft^'^/gueftsytfr  every  ta- 
ble, iVflZtf  they  to  whom  the 
country  cuftom  is  known,  fit 
down  where  it  pleafes  every 
one.  For  there  is  no  differ- 
ence betwixt  a  poor  man  and 
a  rich,  betwixt  a  maftcr  and  a 
fervant. 


This  is  that  old  equality, 
which  now  tyranny  has  remov- 
ed out  of  life.  So  /  believe. 
Chrift  lived  with  his  difciples. 


After  all  have  feated  them- 
felves,  again  that  grim  Gany- 
mede comes  out,  and  over  again 
counts  his  companies.  By  and 
by  returning,  he  ftts  before 
each  a  zuooden  difh,  and  a 
fpoon  made  of  the  fame  (liver, 
then  a  glafs,a  little  aherf  read. 
That  every  man  cleans  for 
kimfelf  at  his  leifure,  whilfl 
the  pulfe  are  boiling..    So  />ky 

purgat 


30 


DIVERSORIA. 


purgai  Jib  i  per  'otium, 
dum  pultes  coquuntur. 
Ita  Jedentur  nonnun- 
quam  ferme  fpatio  ho- 

B.  Nullus  hojpitum 
efllagitat  cibum  inter- 
im ? 

A.  Nullus  cui  inge- 
nium  regionis  eft  no- 
tum.  Tandem  vinum 
upponitur,  bone  Deus, 
quam  non  Jumo/um  ! 
O  portebatf ophiflas  non 
bibere  aliud  ;  tanta  eft 
fubtilitas  et  acrimonia. 
Quod /i quis  kofpes,  pe- 
cunia  oblata  privatim, 
rogat  ut  aliud  genus 
vuii  paretur  aliunde, 
primum  di/jimulantjed 
to  vultu,  quaji  interfee- 
turi.  Si  urgeas,  res- 
pondent, hie  tot  Comi- 
tes  et  Marchiones  di- 
ver fatifunt,  neque  quif- 
quam  que  ft  us  eft  de  meo 
vino  ;  fi  non  placet, 
quaere  tibi  aliud  diver- 
forium  ;  nam  habent 
nobilesyj^  gentis  Jolos 
pro  hominibus,  et  ojlen- 
tant  horurn  infignia 
nufquam  non.  Jam  ig- 
itur  habent  offam  quam 
objiciant  latranti  fto- 
jniicho.       Mox     difci 


Jit  fometimes,  ahnojl  the  fpace 
oj an  hour. 


Does  none  oj  the  guejls  call 
for  the  meat  in  the  mean  time  ? 

None  to  whom  the  temper*?/' 
the  country  \$  known.  At  length 
wine  is  ferved  up,  good  God, 
how  far  Jrom  being  tajlelefs  I 
It  behoved  Sophijters  ,not  to 
drink  any  other  ;  Juch  is  the 
thinnejs  and JJiarpnefs.  But  if 
any  guejl,  money  to'flg  offered 
privately,  dejires  thatjome  oth~ 
er  fort  oj'wine  may  be  got from 
Jomewhere  elfe,  at  firft,  they  dif- 
Jemble  the  matter \  but  with  that 
countenance,  as  if  they  would 
kill  you.  If  you  prefs  them, 
//$ey  anfwer,  here  Jo  many  Earls 
#7^  Marquifles  have  lodged, 
nor  <sW  any  one  complain  of 
^7  wine;  if  it  do  not  pleafe, 
Jeek  for  yourfelf  another  inn  ; 
for  /A^y  account  the  noblemen 
oj  their  nation  #/tf/2£  for  men, 
and  Mry  j^<fz^  their  Coats  oj 
Arms  every  where.  Now 
therefore  they  have  a  piece 
which  they  may  throw  to  the 
barking  ftomach.  By  and  by 
the  difhes  come  in  great  pomp* 
TIk  firft  commonly  has  pieces 
of  bii&djoaking  m  the  broth 
veniuat 


D1VERSORIA. 


3* 


veniunt  magna  pompa.    ojflefi,  or  if  it  be  a  fijli  day,  in 
Primus  Jerme  habet  of    the    broth    of   herbs.        After 
fas    panis     madefaclas    that  another  broth,  after  Jo me- 
jure  carnium,  autf  eft    thing  oi  flefh  boiled  over  again, 
pifculentus     dies,  jure    or  faltfifti  warmed  again.     A- 
ieguminum.        Deinde   gain    fome  pulfe,  by    and    by 
aliudy^i",   poft   aliquid  fome  more  folid  meat,  'till    M«? 
carnium  recoclarum,-<\ut  Jlomach  being  well  tamed,  they 
falfamentorum  recali'ac-  Jet  up    roafted  fe/h,  or    boiled 
torum.   Rurfus  aliquid    fiih, zvkich  you  cannot  contemn 
pultis,  mox  aliquid  fo-    at  all.     But  here  they  are  fpar- 
lidioris  cibi,  donee  Jlo-    ing,  and  fuddenly  take   away. 
macho     probe    domito    After   this    manner   they    mix 
apponant  afTas   car?ies9    their  entertainment,  as  the  abl- 
aut elixos  pifces,    quos    ors  of  plays,  who  mix   choruf- 
non   poflis    contemnere    es  with  their  J'cenes  ;    but  they 
omnino  :  fed    hie  Junt    took  care,  that  thelajl  a£l  mhe 
parci,  ^/  fubito  tollunt.    beft. 
Hoc    pafto    temperant 
convivium,  quemadmo- 
dum  a£ioresJabularum, 
qui    admijeent    choros 
Jcenis  :    a  u  tern    cur  ant 
ut  extremus  a£\us ft  op- 
timus. 

B.  Et   hoc  eft  boni 
poetae. 

A.   Potto  ft  piacu- 


is  the  part  of  a 


And   this 
good  Poet. 

Moreover  it  is  a  heinous 
Ium,yf  quis  interim  di-  crime,  7/any  one  in  the  mean 
cat,  tolle  hunc  dijeum,  time  {ay,  take  away  this  dY/7z, 
nemoi/g/a^r.Defiden-  nobody  ^/j.  You  mull  fit 
dum  eft  ^^  W  fpa-  Vz7/  the  time  appointed,  which 
immprafcriptum  quod  /Agy  meafure  om/£  hour glajfts% 
illimctmnturckp/ydns,  as  I  fippofe.  At  laft  Ma/ 
ut  opinor.  Tandem  bearded  fellow,  or  the  inn- 
*//*  barbatus,  aut  pan-  keeper  himfelf,  very  little  ^ 
docheus  r#2  minimum  fering  from   the    fervants   in 

diffcrens 


a* 


DIVERSORIA. 


differens  a  famulis  vef 
titu,  prodit,  rogat  ec- 
quid  animi  nobis  fit. 
Mox  aliquod generofius 
vinum  ae/fertur.Autem 
amant  eos  qui  bibunt 
largius,  cum  /hi vat  ni- 
hilo  plus,  qui  haufcrit 
plurimum  vini^  quarn 
qui  minimum. 

B.  Ingenium  gentis 
roirum. 

A.Cum  nonnunquam 
fint  qui  abfumant  plus 
in  vino,  quam  folvant 
pro  toto  convivio.  Sed 
antequam  finiam  hoc 
convivium,  mirum  dic- 
tu,  quis  ftrepitus  ac  tu- 
multus  vocu?n  fit  ibi, 
poftquam  omnes  coepe- 
runt  incalefcere  potu. 
Quid  multis  ?  omnia 
furda.  Fifti  moriones 
admifcentj/J  frequenter, 
quo  genere  hominum, 
cum  fit  nullum  magis 
deteftandum,  tamen  vix 
credes  quantopere  Ger- 
mani  deleilentur.  I  Hi 
jaciunt  cantu,  garritu, 
elamore,  faltatione,]>ul- 
fu,  ut  hypocauftum  vi- 
dealur  corruiturum. 
Neque  qui f quam  audi- 
at  alterum  loquentem. 
^interim  videntur  & 


clothes,  comes  out,  a/is  if  we 
have  a  mind  to  any  thing.  By 
and  by  fome  more  generous 
wine  is  brought.  But  they 
love  thofe  who  drink  plentiful* 
ly9  though  he  pays  no  more 
who  drinks  moll  wine,  than  A<r 
Ma/  drinks  leaft. 


The  temper  ^/M<?  nation  is 
ftrange. 

When  fometimes  there  are 
fome  zfl^0  con  fume  m^r*  in 
wine,  than  they  pay  for  the 
whole  fea/l.  But  ^?r*  I  end 
lA«  entertainment,  eV  is-  won* 
derfnl  to  be  faid,  what  a  noife 
tfW  confufion  of  voices  is 
M<?r<r,  after  that  all  have  begun 
t/>  grow  warm  with  drink. 
What  need?  many  words  ?  all 
places  are  full  of  noife.  Pre- 
tendedyWj  thru  ft  in  thernf elves 
frequently,  with  which  kind 
of  men,  though  there  be  none 
more  deteftable,  yet  you  will 
fcarce  believe  how  much  the 
Germans  are  delighted.  They 
caufe  by  tinging,  prating, 
{houting,  dancing,  thucnpingr 
that  the  Hove/eems  ready  ta 
fall.  Nor  can  any  one  hear 
another  fpeaking.  But  in  the 
mean  time  they  fee m  to  them* 
felves  to  live  fweetly  ;  and 
you  mud  fit  there  willing  or 

bi 


DIVERSORIA. 


33 


bi  vivere  fuaviter  ;  at- 
que  defidendum  eft  il- 
lie,  volenti  nolenti,  uf- 
que  ad  multam  noc 
tern. 

A.  Nunc  tandem  ab- 
folve  convivium  ;  nam 
me  tadet  quoque  tarn 
prolixi. 

A.  Faciam.  Tan- 
dem Cafeofublato,  qui 
vix  placet  ilh s,  nifi  pu- 
tris  acjeatens  vermi- 
bus,  Me  barbatus^rtf- 
dit,  adferens  pinacium 
fecum,  in  quo  pinxit 
creta  aliquot  circulos,et 

femicirculos,  deponiuV 
in  menfam,  tacitus  in- 
terim ac  triftis,  diceres 
quempiam  Charontem. 
Qui  agnofcunt  piftu- 
ram,  deponunt  pecuni- 
am,  deinde  alius  at  que 
alius,  donee  pinacium 
expleatur.  Deinde  no- 
tatus  eos  qui  depofut- 
runt,  fuppiKat  tacite  ; 
fi  nihil  defit,  annuit 
capite. 

B.  Quid  Ji  quid/w- 
perfit  ? 

A.  Fortafle  redderet, 
txfaciunt  hoc  nonnun- 
quam. 


unwilling,,  until  late  at  night. 


Now  at  lafi  finifli  the  enter- 
tainment ;  for  I  am  weary  too 
oj  Jo  long  a  one. 

I  will  do  it.  At  laft  the 
cheefe  being  taken  away,  which 
fearce  pleafes  them,  unlefs  rot- 
ten and  foil  of  maggots,  that 
bearded  fellow  comes  fortk% 
bringing  a  trencher  with  him, 
in  which  he  hath  drawn  with 
chalk  fome  circles  and  femicir- 
clef,  he  lays  that  upon  the  ta- 
ble,^/*?/?/ in  the  mean  time  and 
fad  \  you  would  fay  he  was 
fome  Charon.  They  who 
know  the  pi8ure,  lay  down 
their  money,  then  another  and 
another,  Hill  the  trencher  be 
filed.  Then  having  obferved 
thofe  who  laid  down,  he  reck- 
ons filently  ;  if  nothing  be 
wanting,  he  nods  with  his 
head. 

What  if  any  thing  be  over  ? 

Perhaps  he  would  return  it, 
and  they  do  this  Jo  metimes. 

A, Nemo 


34 


DIVERSORIA. 


B.  Nemo  reclamat 
rationi  iniqua? 

A.  Nemo  qui  fapit, 
nam  audiret  protinus, 
qui  tu  es  hominis  ?Jbl- 
z/ejnihilo  plus  quam  a* 
lit. 

B.  Narras  liberiim 
genus  hominum. 

A.  Quod  Ji  quis  la/ 
/us  ex   itinere,    cupiet 

mox  a  carta  petere  lec- 
turn,  jubetur  cxpeclare, 
donee  cceteri  quoque 
cant  cubitum. 

B.  Videor  mi  hi  vL 
derePlatonica?nmbem. 

A.  Tum/uus  nidus 
cftenditur  cuique,  et 
vere  222^2/  aliud  quam 
cubiculum  ;     nam   ibi 

Jitnt  lefti  tantum,  et  ni- 
hil praeterea,  quo  ma- 
ris, aut  quod/ureris. 

B.  Eft  mundities  il- 
iic  P 

A.  Eadem  qua  in 
convivio,  lintea  lota 
forte  #  22te  fex  men/es. 

B.  Quid  interim  fit 
deequis? 

A.  Tra&antur  £  df  e- 
andam  difciplinam,  ad 
quam  hoinines. 

B.  Sed  £/?  eadem 
tra&atio  ubique  ? 

A,  Alicubi  ejl  civil- 


Does  nobody  £27  out  upon 
the  reckoning  # j  unjujl  ? 

Nobody  that  is  wife  ;  for 
he  would  hear  jorthwitk,\V hat 
arc  you  of  a  man  ?  you  Jhall 
pay  no  22202-*  than  others. 

You  tell  oia/ree  kind  of  men* 

But  2/ any  one,  weary  with 
his  journey,  dejires  prefently 
after  /upper  to  go  2*0  2W,  he  is 
ordered  /0  a^zi*  'till  the  rejl 
too  £0  to  bed. 

I  feem  to  my /elf  to  fee  a  P/j- 
tonic  city. 

Then  Azj  neft  is/hewn  to 
every  one,  a?2</  truly  nothing 
elfe  M#22  a  bed  chamber  ;  for 
there  are  beds  ^22/y,  and  »0//^ 
ing  e\(e  that  you  can  ufe,  <?r 
that  you  can/leaL 

Is  there  cleanline/s  there  ? 

The  fame  as  in  the  feaft, 
/222*22  wafhedperhapsyfo  months 
be/o  re. 

What  222  the  mean  time  be- 
comes of  the  hor/es  ? 

They  are  treated  according 
to  the  fame  difcipiine  as  the 
men. 

But  is  there  the  fame  fraz*- 
ment  every  where  ? 

In  fome  places  it  is  civiller, 
ior> 


D1VERSORIA. 


35 


ior, alicubi  durior  quam 
narravi ;  verum  in  gen- 
cre  eft  talis. 

B.  Quid  Ji  ego  nunc 
narrem  tibi  quibus  mo- 
dis  hofpites  traftentur 
in  ea  parte  Italic,  quam 
vocant  Longabardiam, 
rurfus  in  Hifpania,  de- 
inde  in  Anglia,  et  in 
Wallia  ?  Nam  Angli 
obtinent  partim  Gal- 
licos,  partim  German- 
icos  mores,  ut  mix* 
ti  ex  his  duabus  genii- 
bus.  Walli  prcedicant 
fe  aborigines  Anglos. 

A.  Quaefo  te  ut  nar- 
res,  nam  nunquam  con- 
txgit  mihi  videreezs. 

B.  In  praefentia  non 
eft  otium  ;  nam  nauta 
jujjit    adeffem  ad  ter- 

tiam  \iox*vn,niJi  vellem 
relinqui  ;  et  habet  far- 
cinulam  :  alia  oppor- 
tunitas  dabitur  nobis 
garriendi  ufque  ad  fa- 
tietatem. 


in  fome  places  harder  than  I 
have  told  you  ;  but  in  general 
it  is  fuch. 

What  if  I  now  tell  you  af- 
ter what  manner  guejls  are 
treated  in  that  part  of  Italy, 
which  they  call  Lombardy,  a- 
gain  in  Spain,  then  in  Eng- 
land, and  in  Wales  ;  for  the 
EngliJJihave.  partly  the  French, 
partly  the  German  manners, as 
being  mixed  of  thofe  two  na- 
tions. The  Welch  pretend 
themfelves  the  orginal  En- 
glifh. 


I  pray  you  that  ^z/  would 
tell  me,  for  f/  never  happened 
to  me  /tfy&s  them. 

At  prefent  there  is  noti\vat\ 
for  the  failor  ordered  me  to  be 
with  him  by  the  third  hour, 
unlefs  I  would  be  left,  and  he 
has  my  baggage  :  another 
time  an  opportunity  will  be 
given  us  of  prattling  to  fatif- 
ia&ion. 


SPECTRUM. 


A#OulD  hona  rei 

^Zs  ejt  quod    rides 

tecum  tarn  fuaviter,#&tf- 

Ji  naflus  fis  thejaurum? 

B.Tua  divinatio  non 

aberrat  procid  a  fcopo. 

A.  Annon  imperties 

fodali    quicquid    boni 

iftuc  £/?  ? 

B.  Imo,  jumdudum 

optabam  que mpiam  dari 

million  cujus  finum  ^/- 

Junderem   hoc     gaudu 

urn  meum. 

A.  Age  zgzVar  im- 
perii. 

B.  Audivi  modo  le- 
pidiflimam  jabulam 
quam  jurares  effe  com- 
icum  figmentum,  mji 
locus,  perfonce  ac  tota 
res  ejfet  tarn  nota  mihi, 
^waw  tu  es  notus  wzAz. 

A.  Geftio  audire. 
B.  Nofline  Polum 
enerum  Fauni  ? 

A.  Maxime. 

B.  Is  ejl  et  auclor  et 
i?<?r  hujusjabulce. 


WHAT  £**</  thing  /j 
/Aer^,  that  ^0W  laugh 
with  yourfelf  y2?  fweetly  ax 
though  you  had  got  #  treafure  ? 

Your  gue/s  does  not  wan- 
derer from  the  mark. 

Will  youHOt  impart  to  your 
companion  whatfoever  good 
thing  that  is  ? 

Nay,  fome  time Jince  I  was 
yNihWixg  fomebody  might  be  of- 
fered me,  into  whofe  bofom  I 
might  pour  out  this  joy  of 
mine. 

Come  then  impart  it. 

I  have   heard  juji  now   a 
very   pretty  Jlory,    which  you 
would/wear    was  a  comic  fic- 
tion, unlefs  the  place,   the  per* 
Jons,  and  the  whole   affair  was 
as  well  known    to  me,  as   you 
are  known  to  me. 
I  long  to  hear  it. 
Have  you  known   Pool,  the 
foninlaw  of  Faun  ? 
Yes. 

He  is  both  M<*  author  and 
/A*  £#0r  of  this  play. 

A.Facile 


SPECTRUM.  37 

A.  Facile     credam,'       I  can  eafily  believe  it,/<?rhe 
ille  pqjit     agcre  could  a£t  any  phy,  even   with- 

quam  vis  fab u lam,    vel  out  a  maJJi. 
abfqae*  perfona. 

B.  Sic    eft.     Noil',  So  it  is.     You  have  known, 
trpinor   prdium    J"^  1  fancy   the    eftate     which   he 
habet  non  ita  procui  a  has  #<tf  {o  jar  from  London. 
Land  i  ho* 

A.  Phy  !  compotavf-  PL1gb  !   ^  ^^^  drunk    to* 

mus  iWicJczpe.  gether  there  #/?£>?. 

J3.    Agnofcis    igitur  You  know  therefore  the  way 

viam  feptam    utrinque  hedged  in  on    both    fides   zzi&A 

arboribus  digellis  /y^rz  /r^j  placed    at    an  equal   dif- 

intervallo.  tance. 

A.  Ad  \?zvzvc\  partem  O^  the  left  fide  of  thehoufe, 
sedium,ye;'e  altero  jaftu  almojl  two  bow  fliots  off. 
baliilao. 

B.  Tenes.  Alterum  You  ha/e  it.  ##?  fide  0/ 
iatus  vice  habetjiccum  the  way  has  a  dry  diich  /et 
alveum  obfitum  dumis  with  thorns  and  briars  ;  over 
et  yeribus  ;  e  ponticulo  the  bridge,  there  is  a  way  into 
eft  iter  in  planitiem.  a  plain. 

A.  Me  mini.  I  remember. 

B.Jampridem  vaga-  Some  time  ago    there  met it  a 

torrutnor,   tfc  tabula  report,  ^?2d\-z  flory,  among  the 

/w  ruflicos   e/wi   loci,  coumry  people  of  that   ptace, 

Jpeffrdtim  obverfari juxta  that  a  /pint  haunted  nigh  this 

nunc  ponticulum,  cuju.s  bridge,  whofe  miferable  howl- 

tnijtrahdi    ejulatus  e>¥-  ings  a/^rd  heard  now  and  then  ; 

audirentur     lubinde     ;  M^y  fuj peeled  that    it   was  M<r 

Jujpicabantur  effe  <zh?-  Jbul  oi  iome    man,  which was 

Wtzw.     cujuipiam    £z/<#  tortured  zn'M  dirtful torment^ 
torqueretur   dfeni  cru- 
ciatibus. 

D  A,  Ouis 


3» 


SPECTRUM. 


A.  Quis  erat  auclor 
ijtius  rumoris  ? 

B.  Quis  niji  Polus  ? 
Pi  a'flruxerat  hoc  pr  oce- 
lli mm  fuae  fab  id  a* 

A.  Quid  vcnit  ijliin 
mtfiiem  ut   confingeret 

y?a- .... 

B.  Nefcio,  72//?  quia 
ingemnm  hominis  <?y? 
fie  ;  gaudct  ludere  ft  id - 
titiam  populi  commen- 
ts hujufmodi  :  Dicam 
quid  defgnaret  nuper 
nin'iiS  generis.  /5/z- 
g:sa?nmulti  equitabamus 
Boftonem,  inter  gwj"  e- 
::aut,  quos  tu  diceres 
eordatos  vinos,  Coelum 
trot  mire  fcrenum,  nee 
fuffujbaium  ufquarn  »/- 
/.i  nubecula,  Ibi  Po- 
li^oculis  inteniis  med- 
ium fi&navit  to  tarn  fa- 
ciem  ^  fcapulas  imag- 
ine crucis,  et  vultu 
compofito  ad  ftuporem, 
?&z  flfe>$  fecum,  i>z- 
■m  or  tale  in,  Deum  !  #&fdf 
ego  video  ;  Rcganiibus 

t]  1 1 1  ££«  2  /<2  £<2  H  6  p  i'OX  - 
3ii)c,  <7&?<s/  videret,  rur- 
/us  obfigmnsfe  niajore 
cruce,  clementiHirnus 
Deus  avertat  hoc  of- 
ten! um,  inqu.it.  Cum 
inftarent  cupiditate*:^- 


VJhowas  \X\tz\x\\\oxofthat 
report  ? 

Who  but  Pool  ?  /2^  had  pre* 
pared  this  prologue  {oxhisplay. 

What  came  into  his  mind 
to  invent  thqfe  things  ? 

I  know  not,  unlefs  becaufe 
the  humor  of  the  man  is  fo  ; 
he  loves  to  play  upon  the  folly 
of  the  people  with  inventions 
of  this  kind.  /  will  tell  you 
what  he  contrived  lately  of  this 
fort.  A  good  many  of  us  were 
riding  /0  Bojlon,  among  whom 
there  were  fome  whom 
you  would  call  prudent  men. 
The  (ley  #;<2J  wonderfully 
clear,  nor  overcajl  any  where 
a/aVA  £ft>'  little  cloud.  Tlure 
Pool  o;*a4  /nj"  ^i  directed  to- 
wards Heaven  marked  all  his 
iace  and  (houlderblades  with 
thefign  of  the  Crofs,  and  with 
a  countenance  compofed  to  af- 
tonifliment,/i?^Mz^  with  him- 
felf,  immortal  God  !  What  do 
I  fee  ?  They  afung,  who  rode 
next,  g/jfta/  he  faw,  again  fign- 
ing  huvfe  If  with*,  greater  crofs, 
the  moil  merciful  6W  avert 
this  omen,  fays  %.  When 
they  urged  him,  out  of  a  defire 
of  knowing,  he  having  fixedhis 
eyes  tt/?£>rc  heaven,  andfiewing 
tke  place  /2/  ^  Heaven  with 
nofcendi 


SPECTRUM. 


39 


hofcendi,  ille  dejixisoc 
c i\\ is  in  caelum,  ac  com- 
m  o nfl ra n s  locum  call 
digito,  inquit,  nonne 
viaetis  immanem  draco- 
nem,  armatum  igneis 
cor  nib  us,  cauda  re  tor- 
(a  in  circulum  ?  Cum 
negarent  fe\7idere,atque 
Rtejif$lffci9  intenderent 
oculos,  azfubinde  com- 
monftraret  locum,  tan- 
dem units  quifpiam  ne 
vidcretur  parum  ocula- 
tus,  ajfirmavit  fe  quo* 
que  videre  :  unus  item 
at  que  alter  imitatus  ejl 
hunc  ;  nam  pudebat 
non  videre  quod  ejfet 
tarn  perfpicuum.  Quid 
multis  ?  intra  triduum 
hie  rumor  pervajerat 
totarn  Anglian,  tale 
portent  urn  apparauilTe. 
Mir  urn  autem quantum 
popularis  farna  addidit 
fabulae.  Nee  deerant 
qui  ferio  interpretaren- 
tur  quid  ojlentum  vel- 
vet fibi.  ///^  qui  c^/7z- 
mentusjuerat  argumen- 
ium,jruebatur  horum 
ftultitia  cum  magna  vo- 
luptate» 

A .  Agn  of c  o  inge  n  iu  m 
hominis  ;  Jed  redi  ad 
JpeSrum^ 


his  finger,  fays;  do  you  not 
fee  a  vafi  dragon,  armed  with 
fiery  horns,  with  his  tail  turn- 
ed  up  into  a  circle  ?  7///^ 
they  denied  thai  tkgy  faw  it, 
tftttf7  he  bade  them  diiefl  f&eir 
£}'£./,  and  fttfttf  c^W  $f*i  (hewed 
them  the  place ,  atfarijbme  one, 
left  he  Jliould  feem  bad  fighted, 
affirmed  that  he  /tfi1  Jaw  it  : 
0««  likewife  and  another  imi- 
tated him  ;Jor  they  were  a- 
Gxamed  net  to  fee  w h at  &  a s  To 
plain»  What  needs  many 
word s  ?  Wi thin  three  d ay s  th  x s 
report  had  gone  through  all 
E  ngla  nd,  that  f u  c  h  a  m  o  n/l  t  r 
hath  appeared,  But  it  is  zven- 
derjul  how  much  popular  faaje 
added  to  the  ftory .  Nor  were 
there  wanting  fome  who  in 
Ceiled  interpreted  what  this 
prodigy  meant.  He  who**  had 
invented  the  matter,  enjoyed 
theh'Jolly  w'uh  great  p leaf u re- 


I  know  the  temper  of  the. 
man ;  but  return  to  the  appati- 
iion% 

B.  Interea 


4o 


SPECTRUM. 


B.  Interea  divertit 
quidain  F annus  facer- 
«ios  ad  Polum  commo- 
dum,  ex  contra  genere, 
q tubus  von Jatis  eft  ap- 
p  Hari  .  -  '<?^regu  lares, 
tiiji  idem  cognomen  ac- 
c  i  n  a  t  u  r  G  rceca,  p  a  r  o  - 
chjis  vicihi  oppidi  t/^c 
ahcunfc*  i^videbatur 
lijbj  fr#«  vulvar  iter  Ja- 
pe re ,  p  r  se  ferti  m  in  Jar 
ens  rebus. 

A.  Intel ligo,  $a#r 
fabtilas  re  perl  us  eft. 

B .  S  u  p  e  r  c  cc  nam  ft  r- 
^PorKis  eft  dt  rumor e 
i) > e cl ri , c a m  Po  1  u sjentz- 
ret  hunc  ru?ncrcm  non 
fo !  u  m  a  &  di  i  u  m  ejfte  Fa  u  - 
noj  vet Hm  etiani  credi- 
iicn,  coepit  obujlari 
nominem,  ut  doclus  ac 
p i u s  vz r  fu c c urreret  an- 

: m idx  patien t  i  tam  di- . 
ra  ;  et  fi  quid  dubitas, 
inqu.it,  explora  rem, 
obambula  ad  decimam 
juxta  ilium  ponticulum, 
etaudies  rmfev&m  eju- 
tatum,  adjunge  tibi 
quern  iWej  comitem, 
ito  auclies  et  tutior  et 
cerrius. 

A.  Quid  delude  ? 

R.Coena  peracla^o- 
has  ex  mora  abit  vena- 


In  the  mean  time  comes  one 
Faun,  a  prieft  to  /W/  oppor- 
tunely, of  their  kind  to  who itu/ 
z>  not  enoughtobe  cdilediu Lat- 
in rtguht's^unltfs  the  fame /a r- 
$4'/K£  be  lung  tothemz/z  Greek, 
a  parfon  tf/'^z  neighboring  town 
//2d*r<?  abouts*  He  fcemed  to 
hi rnfe If  «0*  to  <££  vulgarly  wife, 
efpecial'Iy  2/2  /ztf/y  things. 


I  under  ft  and,  an  a&orof  the 
play  zvas  found. 

At  fupper  ^  dijeourfe  arofe 
about  the  report  of  the  appar- 
ition, z^/2  Pool  perceived  that 
this  report  not  only  /z^df  /v,f^ 
heard  by  Faun,  ^«^1  r/'tfi"  alfo 
believed,  he  began  to  Mitch  the 
man,  //W  he  being  a  learned 
#W  godly  ?;2cZ?7  *.*ould  fuccor 
the  poor  foul  fufTering  fuck 
dreadful  things ;  and  if  you 
doubt  at  all,  fays  he,  examine 
the  matter,  walk  about  ten  fcrgvfc 
that  bridge,  and  jtf-w  wzY/  hear 
miferable  howling,  take  to  you 
whom  you  will  as  a  compan- 
ion, Fo  you  will  hear  both 
more  fafe  #W  more  certainly. 


What  then  ? 

Supper  being  ended_,Yoo\,ac- 

cording  to  his  cujlom,  goes  a 

turn, 


SPECTRUM 


41 


(urn,  aut  occupatum. 
Taunus  obambulans 
cum  jam  tenebrae  fujlu- 
liffent  certum  judicium 
de  rebus,  tandem  audit 
miferandos  gemitus. 
Ftos  artifex  Po/useffm- 
gebat  mire,  abditus  it* 
lie  i  n  v e p r e  t  a,  fi 3 Hi  o  1  - 
Ja  adbibita  ad  id  ;  quo 
vox.reddita  e  cavo/?- 
na ret  quiddam  luguori* 
us. 

A.  Hasc  fabula,  rift 
video,  vine  it  phajma 
Menanderi. 

B.  Dices  z/?/zz/£  ma- 

fis,  ft  audieris  totam. 
aunus  recipit  fe  do* 
mum,  cupiens  narrare 
quid  audijfet.  Pol  us 
antevenerat  jam  #/?# 
compendiaria  m<z.  Ibi 
Faunus  narrat  Polo, 
quod  <?ra/  atlum,  et  tf/~- 
jingit  aliquid^/2^;7z,quo 
r^J  eiTet  admirabilior. 

A.  Poterat  Polus  in- 
terim tenere  rifuui.  ? 

B.  Illene  !  /fczfo* 
vultum  in  manu.  Dix- 
iffes  w?z  agi /eric  Tan- 
dem Faunus,  Polo  *£- 
tejlante  vehenieriterjfjj/- 
tfS^fi  negotium  ex  ore  f 
mi,  et  #^z7  tot  am  £<2.?2 
nofikm  irfcmnem,  dum 

Da 


hunting  or  a  fowling.  Faun 
walking  when  ?20&>  the  dark- 
nefs  ^#J  ta.&#  flo/ay  a  certain 
judgment  of  things,  a/  length 
he  hears  mi/erable  groans, 
77z§/2  the  artifl  Ptf<?/  feigned 
wonderfully  being  hid  z7zf/£  in 
a  bufhy  place,  #>z  ear  them  pot 
^z'??g  w/&/  for  that  purpofe  ! 
^/z^  the  "voice  &fcflig  returned 
from  the  hollow,  might  found 
fomething  more  mournfully* 

This  farce,  as  far  as  //?<?, 
exceeds  the  apparition  of  Me- 
ander. 

You  will  fay  that  the  more, 
if  yon  hear  the  whole .  Faun. 
got  him  home,  defiling  to  tell 
what  he  had  heard.  Pool  /zsdf. 
g-0/  before  already  by  another 
fhort  to  ay.  There  Faun  tells; 
P00/,  what  /z^67  tae/z  */tf?ze,  ana 
invents  fomething  too,  that  ihe 
thing,  might  be  mere  wonder* 
ful. 

Could  Pool  in  the  mean 
time  hold  {royi  laughing?    . 

He  !  He  has  a  countenance 
in  his  hand.  You  would 
have  faid  that  the  thing  was 
doing  in  earneji.  At  lafl  Faun* 
Pool  befeeching  him  very 
much,  undertook  the  bufinefe 
of  exorafm,  and  he  fpena's  all 
mat  night  without  deep,  whilft 
de/ptcii 


42 


SPECTRUM. 


defpicit  quibus  modis 
aggrederetur  rem  tuto, 
iiajn  mifire  metuebat  fi- 
bi  quo  que.  Prim  urn  u 
iaque  efficaciflimi  ex- 
orcifmi  congefti  funt, 
et  nonnuili  novz  additi 
per  vifcer'a  btatoz  Ma- 
rise,  per  olfa  beatazWz- 
renfridae.  Deinde  lo- 
cus deleclus  eji  planitie 
vicinus  vepreto,  unde 
vox  exaudiebatur.  Sa- 
tis ampliusaVr^/^j  cir- 
cumducts ell  qui  hab- 
eret  crebras  cruces,  vfr 
riafque  notulas  ;  kxc 
&mma  peragehantur 
conceptis  verbis.  In- 
gens  vas  plenum  con- 
ft c rata,  aqua?  a dh ib i - 
turn  eft.  Sacra  fcola, 
q  u  a  m  v  oc  an  t ,  a ddi  ta  eft 
in  collum,  unde  pen  de- 
bat  inilium  Evangelii 
fecundum  Joannern. 
Habebat  in  loeulis  ce~ 
rula?n  folitam  confer  a- 
ri  quotannisa  Romano 
fontifvce,  quae  dicitur 
vulgo,  Agnus  Dei.  His 
armis  ohm  muniebant 
fe  adverfus  noxios  dae- 
rnones,  priufquam  cu- 
culla  Iranci/ii  ccepit 
effe  formidabilis  illis. 
Omnia  hccc  procurata 


he  cqnfiders    which    way     he 

might  atttinpt  the  thing Jafely, 
for  he  teas  mijerably  afraid  of 
himfelf  too.  Fir  it  then  the 
moft  effectual  exorefms  were 
*got  together,  and  Tome  new 
ones  added,  by  the  bowels  of 
bleffed  Mary,  by  the  bones  of 
bleffed  Werenfred.  Then  a 
place  zv as  chofen  in  the  plain 
nigh  the  bufhy  place,  from 
whence  the  voice  was  heard* 
A  good  large  circle  was  drawn, 
which  had  many  croffes,  and 
divers  marks :  All  thefe  things 
were  done  with  a  form  of 
words.  A  huge  vejfel  full  of 
holy  water,  was  made  ufe  of: 
A  holy  gown,  as  they  call  it, 
was  put  over  his  neck,  from 
whence  hung  the  beginning  of 
the  Gofpel  according  to  John. 
He  had  in  his  pockets,  a  bit  of 
zvax  ufed  to  be  con  fee  rated  ev- 
ery year  by  the  Roman  Pon~ 
tiff,  zvhich  is  called  commonly 
the  Lamb  of  God.  With  thefe 
arms  formerly  they  fortified 
themf elves  againft  mifclnevous 
Daemons,  before  the  hood  of 
Francis,  begun  to  be  terrible 
to  them.  All  thefe  things  were 
provided,  lefl  if  itflwuld  be  an 
tvilfpirit,  it  mould  make  an 
attack  upon  the  exorcift.  Nei- 
ther yet  di'.rft  he  truft  himfelf 
alone  in  the  circles^  but  it  was 
fuat. 


SPECTRUM. 


43 


Tunt,    nc    fi  tjfet  maius 
fjriritusjlacexet  impetum 

inexorciiiam.     Nee  ta- 
men  aufus  eft  commit- 
tere/2  folum  circulo,(ed 
decrelum  eft  alterum  fa- 
cer dotem     ad  liibendum 
eiTe.    Ibi  Polus  metuens, 
ne,  ft    naiiitior  e/Jet  ad- 
junftus,  myflerium  tab- 
ulae prodereiur,    adjun- 
git  quondam   parochum 
ex  viama,  cui  operit  to- 
tam  re-n  j  nam/c   aflio 
Jab ula  poftuhbat,  et  e- 
rat  is  qui  non  abhorreret 
a  tali   ludo.     Foftridie, 
omnibus   rebus    paratis 
rite,  fub  decimam  horam 
Faunas,  cum  par ochoin- 
greditur  circulum.     Po- 
lus, qui  praeceffaret,  ge- 
writ     miferabiliter   e  ve- 
preto.     F  annus  aufpica- 
tur  exorcifmum.     Inte- 
rim Polus  fubducit    fe 
clam  per  tenebras,    in 
proximam  villain.     II- 
line  adducit   aliam  per- 
[on*mfabulaz%  nam  non 
potcrai  agi  ni  per  mul- 
tos. 

A.  Quid  faciunt  ? 

B.  Confcendunt  ni' 
gros  equos,  ftrunt  oc- 
cultum  7gne?n  fccum 
ubi  non  abeffent  procul 
a  circulo,  qflentant  ig- 
nero,  quo  metu  abige- 
rent  Faunum  e  circulo. 


determined  that  another  Prieft 
mould  be  employed.  7$*f€ 
Yoo\, fearing M&> lf&  cunning- 
er  man  was  joined  with  them, 
the  myftery  of  (he  iarcefhould  be  ' 
bet  rayed,  j  oi  n  s  t  o  h  i  m  a  ce:>  ia  i  n 
p^rfon  of  the  neighborhood,  to 
whom  he  difclofes  the  whole 
matter  ;  for  fo  the  acting  of  the 
farce  required,  and  he  was  one 
that  was  not  averfe  to  fuch 
fport.  The  day  after,  all  things 
being  prepared  rightly,  about 
the  tenth  hour  Faun,  with  the 
parfbn,  enters  the  circle.  Pool, 
who  had  gone  before?  groans 
miferably  out  of  the  bufay  place,  , 
Faun  begins  the  exorcifm.  In 
the  mean  time  Pool  withdraws 
himfelf  privately  in  the  dark, 
into  the  next  village.  Thence 
he  brings  another  atlor  of  the 
play  j  ior  it  could  not  be  acled 
but  by  many. 


What  do  they  ? 

They  mount  black  horfes ; 
they  carry  covered  fire  with 
them,  wlun  they  were  not  far 
from  the  circle,  theyfliew  their 
fire,  that,  by  fear'  they  might 
drive  Faun  cut  of  the  circle. 

A.  Quantum 


44' 


SPECTRUM. 


A.  Quantum  opera 
fumpfit  i lie  Pol  us,  ut 
falleret  ! 

B.  Sic  homo  eft-  Verum 
ea  res  propemodumcef- 
ferat  pe/Jime  ill  is. 

A.  Qui  fie  ? 

B.  Nam  equi  confter- 
nati  igne  fubito  prolato, 
parum  abfuit  quinprae- 
cipitarent  et  fe,  et  feiTo 
res.  Habes  primum  ac- 
tum fabulae.  Ubi  red- 
ditum  eft  in  colli  quium, 
Pol  us  velut  ignarus  om- 
nium %  rogat  quid  effet 
acl-am-        Ibi     Faunus 

'tiarrat  duos  leter rimes 
Dcemonos  confpeftos/?. 
fri,  in  nigris  equis,  igne- 
is  oculis,  aefpirantes  ig- 
nem  nanbus,  qui  ten- 
taffent  ingredi  circulumr 
verum  abaclos  in  maiam 
rem  effcacibus  verbis. 
Curn  animus  accrevifftt 
Fauno  his  rebus,  die 
poftero  rediit  in  circu- 
lum  cum  fummo  appa- 
ratu  :  cumque  provo- 
cafjet  fpe&rum  rn.ultis 
«bteftationibus,  Pol  us 
rurfum  cum  collega  of 
tendit  fe  procul  ex  atris 
equis,  horrendo  fremi- 
/tf,quafi  cuperentinutn- 
pere  circuto. 

A.  Habebant  nihil  f 

B.  Nihil,  nam  id  cef 
Jartt  rnzte*   Sed  audi  a* 


How  much  pains  took  tliat 
Pool,  that  he  might  deceive ! 

So  the  man  is.  Rut  that  thing 
had  well  nigh  fallen  out  very 
badly  for  them. 

Howfo  ? 

For  the  horfes  being  frighted 
with  the  fire  fwddenly  product  dy 
had  like  to  have  thrown  both 
themfelves,tfW  their  riders.  You 
have  the  firft  acl  of  the  play. 
When  they  returned  to  confer 
together,  Pool,  as  if  ignorant 
of  'all  things ,afks  what  had  been 
done.  There  Faun  tells  him  that 
two  very  ugly  devils  had  been 
fcen  by  him,  upon  black  horfes^ 
with  fiery  eyes,  and  breathing 
fire  0#/  of  their  nqfes,  who  Aaaf 
/nVd?  to  enter  the  circle,  but 
a/£r£  driven  away  with  a  ven- 
geance by  powerful  wordsv 
When  courage  grew  upon  Faun 
by  thefe  things,  the  day  follow- 
ing he  returned  into  the  circle 
with  his  utmoft furniture*  And 
when  he  had  called  out  the  fpir- 
it  with  many  intreaties,  Pool  a- 
gain,  with  his  colleague,  Jhe we d 
himfelf  at  a  diflance  from  black 
horfes,  with  a  horrid  muttering 
noi/e,  as  it  they  dejired  to  break 
into  the  circle. 


Had  they  nothing  of  fire. 
Nothing,  for  thatfell  out  bad- 
lyt-Zfalhear  another  invention. 

Imd 


SPECTRUM. 


45 


liud  commentum,  Dum 
cebant  Ion  gum  funem  s 
eo  iraclo  lev  iter  per  hie 
mum,  dum  uterque  pro- 
ripit  fe  hinc  atque  hint, 
velut  abacli  exorcifmis 
Faunu  provolvunt  in 
terrain  utvumque facer- 
do  tern,  una  cum  vafe 
quod  habebant  plenum 
iacrae  aqu<z. 

A.  Parochus  till  it  hoc 
praemii  pro  fua  aclione? 
B.  Tulit,  et  tamen 
maiuit  perpeti/W,quam 
defer  ere  fab  u  lam  ccep- 
tarn.  His  gejiis  ita  ubi 
reditum  elt  ad  colloqui- 
um, Faunus  drprcedicat 
a  pud  Polum  in  quant  o 
fkriculofuiffii,  et  912am 
former  profligajjet  u- 
trumqr.e  cacodemonem 
fuis  verbis;  jam  que  con* 
ceperatcertam  fiduciam, 
ejje  null  urn  dcemenem 
tarn  noxium,  aut  imp  11  ■ 
den  tern,  qui  peffet  ir* 
rumpere  circulo. 

A.  Ule  Faunus  non 

nmiltum  abeft  afatuo. 

B.  Audifti  RzAi/a^huc^ 

Fabula  progrefta  hujuf- 

que   com  mod  um  fuper- 

venit    Poli  gener,    nam 

dvLXtrat ejus  «£?#  »*£.*- 

iviam  hWamfuvenis,  ut 

Jfcis  9mire  tefhvoYtfg^mtf. 

A.    Scio,   rc^c  abhor- 

rens  ab  hujufmodi  jocis. 


7%d^  took  a  long  r^;  thatte";?^- 
drawn  lightly  along  the  ground* 
vvhilfl  &z£#  throws  himfelf  out 
on  this  fide  and  that  fide,  as  if 
driven  away  by  the  conjuring 
0/^  Faun,  they  tumbled  down 
z^tfrc  //zd-  ground  both  pnejis, 
together  &'?7/z  the  tub  which 
they  IradJ'ull  of  holy  water. 


Did  the  parfon  get  //z?j  re* 
ward/or  his   acting  his  part  ? 

He-  did  get  it,  and  yet  >$£ 
chqfe  rather  to  fatter  //h\.r,  than 
to  Jo? fake  the  play&g#»«  Thefe 
things  tettg-  /&«£  thus.,  when 
j£ey  returned  ^  the  conference* 
%  .in  tells  10  Pool  z>2  how  great 
danger  /z<?  ^/z^/  £4??,  and  >^a; 
ftoutly  he  had  put  to  flight  both 
the -devils  with  his  words  ;  3/id? 
now  he  had  conceived  #  cer- 
tain a  durance  that  there  was 
no  devil  {omifchievdus,  or  im- 
pudent, who  a?<//</  break  into 
the  circle. 


That  Fiftfl  is  not  far  remov 

ed  from  a  fool. 

You  have  heard  nothing  as 
yet.  The  play  being  advanced 
thus  far*  in  good  time  ft?#fiJ  7/2 
Popf's  foninlaw,  lor  /*<?  //tfJ 
married  his  </;/<?//  daughter;  £ 
)oung  man,  as  you  know,  of  a 
wonderful  merry  humor. 

I  know,  72 #r  averfe  to  /acA 
jefls. 

B.  Abhorens  ! 


46 


SPECTRUM. 


B.  Abhorens  !  Hit 
deferreret  nullum  non 
vadimonium,  fi  talisj^- 
bula  effet  vel  fpeQanda, 
vtl  agenda.  Socer  de- 
narrat  omnem  rem  huic  ; 
at  que  delegat  ei  partem, 
ut  agat  an  imam .  Sumif 
ornatum,  aclubens  con- 
volvit  fe  linteo^quemad- 
moixxmfunera  fole-nt  a- 
pud  ftos+  Habet  vi- 
vam  prmam  in  tcjta, 
quae  p'r  linteum  redde- 
batjpeaem  incendii.  Sub 
naafm  itum  eft  ad  lo- 
cum ubi  hcFC  tabula  age- 
bat 'ur.  Miri  gemitus 
audiuntur.  Faunvscx- 
pedit  o?nntsexorc\fmos. 
Tandem  aniro3  oftendit 
fefe  procul  i n tra  vep re- 
turn, fubinde  ojlcritnns 
iguem,  ac  fuipirans  mi- 
Jere.  Cum  Faun  us  of- 
teirtaretur  hanc,  ut  ^/0- 
queretur  qui  (nam  j^W, 
Po  I  us  £  r ^/J7z  ?V  f  ub  1 1  o  <? 
vepreto,  ornatu  catedai- 
moms,  {iEhoquz  f remit  u> 
inquit,  ejl  tibi  nihil  ju- 
ris in  bane  aniviamx  eft 
»&£&,  ac  fubinde  procur- 
r i 1 ^/# « <?  <?//  o r a m  circu- 
it, velut'ifdfturus  impe- 
turn  in  ex  ore? /lam  :  mox- 
que  velut  full  mot  us  ver- 
bis exorcijftni,  et  vi  y#- 
ct#  accuse,  ##&#&  adber- 


Averfe  !  he  would  iorhke any 
bail,  7/Tuch  a  play  vid&eiiher  to 
be  feen  or  to  be  acled.  The  fa- 
therinlazv  tells  a//  the  matter  to 
fnm,and  appoints  him  iej  part ; 
thathe  TTzaj  #<<?  the  foal.  He  takes 
hisdrefs,  tfrcaf  willingly  wraps 
h  i m fe  1  f  2  /z  a  fheet,  zsdea d  b c di es 
ufed  to  be  with  us.  He  has  a 
liveco'dl  in  aJhell,wh\chthrougk 
thejlieet,  made  an  appearance  of 
fife.  ^/  night  they  went  /0  /A<? 
#/#££  where  this  p\ay  was  acled. 
Wonderful  groans  are  heard. 
Faun  makes  ready  allhh  exor- 
cifm.  At  length  the  iouljlzews 
it  felt  <s  #?-^  way  off  within  the 
buj1**  Olace,  n6w  and  then  Jhew- 
ing  me  iue,and  groaning  nnfer- 
ably.  When  Faun  befought  it, 
that  it  would  declare  who  7 1  was, 
Pool  jumped  fuddenly^  of  the 
bufhy  place  in  the  drefs  of  a 
devil,  and  with  a  feigned  tout- 
tering  noife,  fays,  j<?#  have  no 
right  to  this  foul,  it  is  ;#z;/j,  and 
»0&  and  then  he  runs  #£  ^  the 
edge  of  tht  circle,  as  if  he  would 
?nake  an  attack  w/w»  6^  conju» 
ror  ;  And  by  and  by  as  z/^beat 
off^y  M<?  words  of  the  conjura- 
ifdn,a-arfth^vittufejjf  ///£  holy 
water,  winch  he  fprinkled  upon 
him  in  great  plenty^  drew  off. 
At  length  the  pedagogue  devil 
bang  driven  away,  begins  a  du 
alogue  of  Faun's  with  the  fouJ. 
7/  anjwered  htm  afking  and  be- 
ffceciiing,  thai  it  was  the  foul  of 

fit 


SPECTRUM. 


47 


fit///*  multam,  retro- 
ceJTet.  Tandem  pctda- 
gogo  d^emone  aba&o, 
nafcitur  dialogifmus 
Fauni  cum  anima.  Re- 
fpondit  percun&anti  et 
obteftanti  fe  effe  ani- 
mam  Chriftiani  ho  mi- 
nis. Rogato  quo  no- 
mine vccareturjefyon- 
dit,  Faunus  :  Faunus, 
inquit  idem  eft  mihi 
noraen ,ja7nque  res  cce- 
pit  effe  cordi  illi  magis 
ex  communi  nomine,  ut 
Faunus  liber aret  Fau- 
num.  Cum  Faunus^r- 
contaretur  multa,  ne&\- 
utina  conjabulatio  pro- 
deret  fucum,  animayi^- 
ducebat  fefe,  negans  ef- 
fe fas  fibi  colic  qui  diu- 
tius,  quod  tempus  ur- 
geret,  quo  cogerttur  a- 
bire^/^(9  liberet  pceda- 
gogo  dtemoni  :  tamen 
pollLitus  eft/i  reditu- 
rum  po/tridic,  hora  qua 
effetfas.  RuiTus  con* 
vent  urn  efl  in  Poll  2edi- 
bus,^'  erat  chcragus 
fabuiae.  Ibi  exorcifta 
driarrat  quid  effct  gef- 
tu:n,  admtntiens  non- 
nulla  etiam,  quae  tamen 
perfuadebaty/^'  effe  t'£- 


a  chriftian  man.  Being  afked 
by  what  name  it  was  called,  it 
anfwered,  Faun  :  Faun,  Jays 
he,  the  fame  is  my  name  ;  and 
now  the  thing  begun  to  pleafe 
him  more,  becaufe  of  their 
common  mmc,that  Faun  might 
deliver  Faun.  W^tt  Fauntf/^- 
^many  things,  /5/?  a  long  tfV/^ 
courfe  mould  betray  the  rogue- 
ry, the  foul  zoithdrew  itfeli,  <&- 
nying  that  2/  was  laziful  for 
him  /0  ta//£  longer,  becaufe  the 
time  8/ai  <2/  hand,  when  fo 
fhould  be  obliged  to  go,  to  hit  her 
it  pleafed  the  pedagogue  devil  : 
y^  he  promifed  /A<2£  /z<*  would 
return  //2^  afoy  after, 2X  the  hour 
a;^72  it  fhould  be  lawful.  Again 
Mey  meet  in  Pools  houfe,  who 
was  the  fur  niftier  of  the  play. 
There  the  conjurer  tells wlratwas 
done,  /y;^  in  fome  things  too, 
which  yet  he  perfuaded  himftlf 
to  be  true,  fo  much  he  favored 
the  bufmefs  which  was  dqing. 
Ar0o/  this  was  found  out,to  wit, 
that  it  was  a  Chriftian  /r;z//, 
which  was.plaguedwith  dread- 
ful torments,  under  a  7720ft  un- 
merciful devil.  To  this,  all 
his  endeavor  is  directed.  But 
a  certain  comical  thing  hap- 
pened in  the  next  conjuring- 
bout. 


T& 


4» 


SPECTRUM. 


ra  adeo  Javehat  nego- 
tio  quo  a  agzb&tur.  Jam 
hoc  compcrtum  erat, 
fciiicet,  eJJ'e  Chriilia- 
nam  am  mam  quae  vex- 
atetur  diris  cruciatibus 
fab  incUmebfiffimb  dae- 
mone.  Hue  omnis  co- 
natus  intenditur.  Jre- 
rum  quiddam  ridicu- 
him  accidit  in  proximo 
exorcifmo. 
A.Obfecro  quidnam? 
H.Cum  Faunus  evo- 
cafTet  animam,  Polus, 
qui  agebat  dcemonem, 
afliliit  prorfus  fie,  quafi 
irf  upturns  intra  circu- 
it! m,  cumq  ;  Faunus 
pugnaret  exorcifmis,  et 
afpergeret  viultam  vim 
aqua;  ;  tandem  daemon 
exclamat  fe  ne  ' facer  e 
omnia  ifta  q  u  i  d  e  m  p  ili ; 
inquit,  hahuijii  rem 
cutTfpuplfa,  es  mei  ju- 
ris. Cu  m  Polus  dicer  et 
idjoco,  tamQii  Jcrtefor- 
tuna  vifus  eit  dixiffe 
vcrum  :  Nam  ex  ore  if- 
ta taclus  hoc  diclo,  ii- 
lico  recepi.t  fe  in  cen- 
trum circuli,  tt  immuf- 
favit  ncje-o  quid  in  du- 
re m  parccbi.  Polus  feu- 
tie:  js  id   tecipitfe/e,  ne 


I  befeech  you  what? 
MVhcnFaun  had  called  out  the 
foul,  Pool,  who  a&cdthe  devil, 
leaped  up  jujl  fo,  as  if  he  would 
break  within  the  circle,  and 
when  Yaun  fought  by  conjura- 
tion, and  fprinkled  on  him  a 
vajl  quantity  of  water  ;  at  lojl 
the  devil  cries  out  that  he  did 
not  value  all  tkoje  things  fo 
much  as  a  hair  ;  quoth  he,  thou 
hajl  had  dealings  with  a  girl, 
thou  art  a,  part  of  my  right. 
Though  Pool  j 'aid  that  in  jefl, 
yet  by  good  fortune  he  feemed 
to  have  [aid  the  truth  :  For  the 
conjurer  being  Jlruck  with  this 
faying^  prefently  betook  him- 
feif  into  the  centre  oi  the  circle, 
and  muttered  /  know  not  what 
into  the  ear  of  the  Parfon. 
Pool  perceiving  that,  with- 
drew himfelj,  left  he  fliould 
hear  any  thing,  which  it  was 
audi  ret 


SPECTRUM.  49 

audiret  quid,  quod  non  not  lawful  to  hear. 
eilet  Jas  audire. ' 

A.  Sane  Polus  age-  Truly  Pool  acled  the  relig- 
bat  religiofum  et  modef  %ous  and  modejl  devil. 

/#;/z  daemonem. 

B.  Sic  f/if.  Aftio  po-  So  zV  jfi.  The  a&ion  might 
terat  reprehendi,  quod  be  blamed,  becaufehe  little  re- 
parum  meminiffet  de-  garded  decency.  Yet  he  over- 
coris.  Tamen  exaw  heard  the  voice  of  the  parfon 
divit : vocem parochi  in-  appointing  fatisfatlion. 
dicentis  fatisfaclionem. 

A.  Quam  ?  What  ? 

B.  Ut  diceret  Domi-  That  hefnouldfay  the  Lord's 
nicam  precationem  ter.  Prayer   thrice.        By   this    he 
Ex  hoc  conjiciebat   /*a-  gueffed  that  he  had    had  deal- 
£w^£  rem    /tfr   eadem  ings  thrice  the  fame  night. 
node. 

A.  Hoc  fane  ille  r£-  This  truly  that  regular  did 
gularispvtttev  regulam.  befides  his  rule. 

B.  Sunt  homines,  et  They  are  men,  and  zV  ztftfJ'  a 
erat  humanus  lap/its.  human  Jailing, 

A.  Perge,  quid  dein-  Goon,  what  \X\tvtwas  done  ? 
dejaclum  ? 

B.  Jam  Faunus  re-  Now  Faun  returns  more 
dit  fracior  ad  oram  fierce  to  the  edge  of  the  circle, 
circuli,  et  ultra  provo-  and  of  his  own  accord  chal- 
c  at  damontm  ;  at  ?//£  lunges  the  Devil ;  but  he  now 
jam  timidior  refi\gie-  being  more  timorous, .ran  away, 
bat,  inquiens,  feteilifti  faying,  thou  haft  deceived  77^, 
we,  fi  fapu.fftm,  non  if  I  /za</  been  wife,  I  fliould  not 
monuiilem  te.  Hoc  have  told  thee.  This  zj  be- 
£/S?  perfuafum  vndtis,  lieved  by  many,  what  you  con- 
quae,  conffus  /is  femel  jfc/}  once  ^  the  priefl  is  g^zte 
jacerdoti,  efle  prorjus^  wiped  out  of  the  ??iemory  o£  the 
abolita  £    me?ndria'frai~  devil,  that  he   cannot    upbraid 

you, 

E  nionis, 


SPECTRUM. 


monis,  ne  pojjit  appro- 
bare. 

A.  Narras  plant  rid- 
iculu?n  jocum. 

B.  Sed  ut  finiam/#- 
b  ula  m ,  a  1  i  qu  a  n  d  o  cotlo  - 
quium  habitum  eft  cum 
anima  in  hunc  modum 
aliquot  dub  us.    Su.mma 
evafit   hue.      Ilia   rtf- 
pondit     exorciftac    ro- 
ganti    num  poffet  «jita 
via  liberari  a  cruciatu, 
pojje  fi   ptcunia    quam 
reliqujfet  parta  Jraude 
reilitueretur.     Ibi  Fau- 
nus  inquit,   quidy?  dif- 
p en  far etu  r  in  pios  if  us 
per  ban os  viros  ?    i?<?/^ 
pondit  ut    hoc  projutu- 
rum.       Heic    exorcijla 
e xhi laratus    ^<?/tz^ ttt7<z- 
taJ  9?  fumma    diligtn- 
ti.%,  quaritay^/;;^   ef- 
fet.     ///a    dixit  in  gen- 
tern,  quod    erat  bonum 
*/  commodum  zV/z.  In- 
dicavit    et    locum,  Jed 
procul  dijjitnm,  ubi  hie 
thefaurus  ejfzt  defoflYis. 
Pnfcripjit  in    quos  u? 

Jus  vellct  inipendi. 

A.  In  quos  ?  ' 

B.  Ut  tres  fufcipe- 
rent  peregrinatwnem, 
umm  quorum  adiret  li- 


You  tell  me  a  very  cc 
jeft. 

But  that  I  may  finifh  the 
Jiory  at  laft,  a  conjerence  was 
held  with  the  foul  z#  this  man- 
ner for  fome  days.  The  up/hot 
came  /<?  this,  it  anjwered  the 
conjuror,,  afhiyig  whether  z£ 
r0#W  any  way  be  delivered  from 
torment,  that  it  might  if  ///£ 
money  which  &  hadlejt,  got  by 
cheating,  fhould  be  reftored. 
Upon  that  Faun  Jays,  what  if 
it  mould  be  difpofed  of  to  pi- 
ous ufes  by  g00*/  men  ?  It  an- 
Jwered,  that  that  alfo  would  do 
good.  Here  the  exorcijt  being 
rejoiced,  inquired  with  the 
greateft  diligence,,  how  great 
thejum  was.  //  faid,  a  huge 
one,  which  a^j  good  <zW  con- 
venienty<?r  ln?n.  It  difcover- 
ed  alfo  the  place,  but  a  great 
way  dijlant,  where  this  treaf- 
ure  was  hid  in  the  earth.  It 
prescribed  for  what  ifes  it 
would  have  it  laid  out. 


For  what  ? 

That  ih ret  mould  undertake 

a  pilgrimage,    oae    of  whick 

mould  go  id  the  threjholds   of 

tnina 


SPECTRUM, 


5* 


ynina  Petri,  ahtr  iret 
Jalutatum]acobufnCom- 
pojlellanum  ;  tertius  of- 
cularetur  petlinem  Je- 
j^.qui  ejl  Treviris.  Dc- 
inde  m^gna  vis  pfalte- 
riorum  et  mifTarum  pe~ 
rageretur  per  aliquot 
monafteria.  Quod  fu« 
pereffet,  ipfe  difpenfa- 
rtx  pro  fuo  arbitratu. 
Jam  totus  animus  Fau- 
fit  erat  in  tkefauro. 
.  Devorarat  ilium  toto 
pectore. 

A.  Eft  vulgaris  mor- 
bus, quanquam  facer- 
dotes  peculiariter  male 
audiunt,  koc  nomine. 

B.Ub'mihil  omiffum 
cflet  quod  pertineret  ad 
negotium  peewniee,  ex* 
crcijlatubmomius  aPo- 
lo  ccepit  percuntlan  an  - 
imam  dealcumijlica,<Xt- 
que  magica,  it  anitna 
tefpondit  quaedam  ad 
h&t  pro  tempore;  ccete- 
rum  pollicitay^  indica- 
turum  plura,  fimul  at- 
<|ue  liber ata  juiffet  il- 
lius  opera  a  paedagogo 
damont.  Sit  hicj?  vi- 
detur,  lerlius  a&us  fa- 
buia.  In  quarto  Faw 
tius   ccepit    prizJicare 


Peter,  another  fliotild  go  to  fa- 
lute  James  of  Compofitlla  ;  a 
third  fhouldkifs  the  comb  of 
Jejus,  which  is  at  Triers, 
Then  a  gx tat  quantity  of  pfalms 
and  ma&es  fhould  be  performed 
through  fome  fnonafteries. 
What  remained  he  might  dif- 
pofe  of  according  to  his  pleaf 
ure.  Now  the  whole  foul  0/ 
Faun  was  zfc  thetreafure.  We 
ha  J  devoured  it  with  his  whois 
brtaft. 


It  is  a  common  difeafe  though 
priefts  peculiarly  have  an  ill 
report  up  an  this  ace  cunt. 

When  nothing  had  been  o- 
milted,  that  appertained  to  the 
bufinefs  of  the  money,  the  con- 
juror  being  put  in  mind  01  it 
by  Pool,  began  to  ajk  Hit  foil  I 
about  the    Alcumftic    art,  and 

of  rnaoic.     And    the    foul  an- 

p 

Jiuered  fome  things  to  that  foY 
that  time  ;  but  promifed  thai 
it  would  difcover  mo ret  as  foon 
as  it  was  delivered  by  hia 
means  from  the  pedagogue  acv  - 
U.  Let  this  be,  if  it  lecm-s 
good,  the  third  act  of  the  pla\ , 
In  the  fourth  Faun  began  to 
tell  of  this  prodigious  thing 
Wry  z^£r<?  in  earneft,  /(9  fa/# 
banc 


52 


SPECTRUM. 


hanc  prodigiofam  rem    of  nothing  elfe  in  company,  in 
ubique     ferio,    ciepare  feafis,  to  promife/?/;^  mighty 
nihil  a/?W  in  colloqui-    matters  to  the  monajlries,    and 
is,  in  conviviis,    polli-    he /poke  of  now    nothing  at  all 
eeri  quccdam  magnifica    *?2<?tf;?.      He  goes    to    the  place, 
monaflcriis,  et  loqueba-    finds  //?£   marks,  yet    ^  afor/i 
iurj&txi    nihil  o.mnino    not  dig    up    //^    treafure,    be- 
humile,       Adit    locum,    caufe  the  Jo  id  had  thrown    in  a 
repent   figna,     tamen  fcruple,   that   he    would    do  it 
Wi0«  tftf/aj-   £/?  effodere    ZW$  g?-^  anger,  j/*  the   treaf^ 
thejaurum  quod  anima    urej/iould   be  touched,    before 
injeciffet      Jcrupulum,    the    maffts    were     performed, 
idclurum   ingenti  peri-    -iV^o/    the    roguery    ggai  fmelt 
c\\\o,fi\.\it{zxMK%attin-    cut    by    many    ;;z<?r^     cunning 
geretur  priufquam  ?;z£/:    people.     When,    notwithjiand- 
Ja  peracla?  eifent.  Jam    z'tfg*  he  every    where  publiflud 
iucus  Jubolebott  multis    his  folly  ;  he  was    advifed />?i- 
ncijhictibus.     Cum  ta- r  vattly  by  his    friends,  cfpecial- 
men  ille  nufquam    non    /}'  by  his  abbot,  //W  /2^   would 
depredicaret  {aamjlul-    not  give  a  different  fpecimen  of 
titiam,    admonitus    eft    himfelf /0  a// /rc*»,  who    /2  2*M- 
c/#  tfz  ab  amicis,  prafer-    erto  had  been  accounted  a  ^ra- 
ft'/#   ab    abb  ate  fuo     ft£    cWz/    man.      y^/    he    could  be 
tft/r?/    diverfum    fpeci-    moved  by  no  man's  tali,   from 
men  de  fe  omnibus,  qui    believing  M^/  ^    matter   was 
haclenus    habitus    effet    mz/ ;     And    /&j   imagination 
prudens    vir.       Tamen  Jeized  the  mind   of  the    man  fo 
ille  potuit   commoveri    thoroughly,     that     he    dreamt 
nuiLiks    oratione,    quo    <?/  nothing,  [pake  of  nothing 
minus  crederet  remeffe    btfides  ghofts    aw*/-  evil  fprr: 
feriam  :  et  /z#c  imagin-    2/j.        The  habit  0/"  his  mind 
atio  occupavit  animum    had  got  i nto  hi s  very  face, which 
koinims    adeo  penitus9  .  was  fo    pale,   was   fo    thin,  fo 
ut  foviniaret   nihil,  /0-    dejecled,  thatjytfw    zvould  have 
queretur    nihil,   prater  J aid  he  was  a  ghojl,  not  a  man. 
ipectra  */  malos  genics.    What  needs  many  words  ?  /fc 

Habitus 


SPECTRUM. 


Habitus  mentis  abierat 
in  ipfam  faciem,  qua 
ficpallebat,  etat  fie  ex- 
tenuata,  fie  dejecta^  ut 
diceres  effe  larpam ,non 
hominem.  Quid  mul- 
tis  ?  minimum  aberat 
a  fc^ftf  dementia,  ni 
fuccurfum  fuiffct  celeri 
reined 10. 

A.  Nimirum  hie  <?* 
ri/  extremus  z&asfab- 
yla>. 

B.  Reddam^^  tibi, 
Polus  et  f/wj  gerafr 
commenti  funt  hajuf 
modi  teclipam.  Effinx- 
erunt  epijtolam  defcrip- 
tam  in  raris  Uteris, 
Idque  non  in  vulgari- 
bus  chartis.  Sententia 
epi(tol3D<?ra/  haec.  Fau- 
nas dudum  captivus, 
nunc  /e^r^beternam  fa- 
lutem  Faufio  fuo  0/^z- 
?w<?  liberatori.  Non  cjly 
mi  Faune,  rwr  maceies 
te  diutius  z/z  A<?c  nego- 
tio.  Deus  refptxit  pi- 
am  voiantatem  tui  ani- 
mi,  ^  illius  merito  /;'- 
beravit  me  afupplici- 
is  :  Ego  tfftttc  ago/e/z- 
cz^r  inter  angelos.  Ztf- 
c^j  manet  /e  apud  di- 
vum  Auguftinum,   qui 

E  2 


was  very  little  remdved  from 
real  madnefs,  unlefs  he  had 
been  relieved  by  a  jpeedy  rem- 
edy, 


Well,  this    will  be    //^  /^ 
a&  of  the  play. 

1  will.give  ?'<f  to  you.  Pool 
and  his  fomnlazv  invemedy?/r# 
a  trick  as  this.  They  forged 
an  epiflU  writ  ?«  rtdfd  letters , 
and  that  tza/  upon  common  pa- 
per. Thefubjed  ol  the  letter 
tt'tfx  this.  i^/z  fome  time  a- 
go  a  pi "ifoner,  now  free,  wifh- 
eth  eternal  falvation  to  Faun, 
his  very  good  deliverer.  There 
is  no  reafon,  my  Eaun,  why 
you  mould  trouble  your/c/Jzny 
further  in  this  bufinefs.  God 
hath  regarded  the  pious  inten- 
tion of  your  mind,  and  for  the 
merit  of  it  hath  delivered  me 
from  putiifkment :  \  nozo  live 
happily  among  the  Angels.  A 
place  is  refer vedjor  you  near 
Saint  Auguftin,  which  is  next 
to  the  choir  #/  the  apo/tles. 
When  you  come  to  us,  I  Jfiall 
give  you  thanks   face   to  face. 

elt 


54 


SPECTRUM. 


eft  proxinzus  choro  A- 
pojlolorum.  Ubi  vene- 
ris ad  nos,  #£#/>&  tibi 
gratias  coram.  Inte- 
rim cura  z^  vivas  fu a- 
viter.  Datum  ex  em- 
pyreo  ccel-o,  idibus  Sep- 
tembribus,  anno  mitle- 
Jimo  quadragintefimo 
nonagijjimo  octavo,  Jab 
figillo  mei  annuli.  Haec 
epijlola  pofua  eft  clam 
in  altari,  z*^'  Faunas 
Jaclurus  erat  rem  divi- 
nam.  Subornatas,<\\i\, 
ea  peracla,  fubmoneret 
'*eu?n  de  re  qua/i  depre- 
head  a  caju.  Nunc 
circ umje ret  earn  epifto- 
lam,  ac  credit  nihil 
certius,  quam  earn  per- 
latum  e  ccelo  <?£  cngelo. 

A.  Iftud  «c?»  <?//  li- 
bera ife  horninem  infa- 
i\v&,Jed  mutaffe  g£/?z/J 
infanise. 

B.  Sic  tjl  profe8o 
nifi  quod  nunc  infanit 
fuavius. 

A.  Antehac  nonjole- 
lam  tribuere  multurn 
jabulis,  quae  jeruntur 
vulgo  dejpeclris  ;  fed 
pojlhac  tribuam  multo 
minus ;  nam  fufpicor 
WMlia     piodiu    Uteris 


In  the  mean  time,  take  care -that 
you  live  merrily.  Given  Jrem 
the  Empyrean  heaven,  on  the 
Ides  of  September,  in  the  year 
0??<?  thoufand  four  hundred  <z;?^/ 
ninety  eight,  under  the  fea!  0/* 
;/y/  rz??^.  This  /^//^r  was  laid 
privately  upon  the  altar,  a;Aere 
Faun  was  to  perform  divine 
fervice.  One  was  fuborned, 
who,  that  being  over,  Jliould 
tell  him  of  the  thing,  as  ob- 
served by  chance.  Now  ^£ 
carries  about  that  letter,  #;?</ 
believes  nothing  move  certain- 
ly, than  that  it  was  brought 
Jrom  heaven  by  an  angel. 


That  is  not  to  have  freed  the 
man  horn  madnefs,  but  tohave 
changed  the  kind  of  madnefs. 

So  it  is  indeed,  but  that  now 
he  is  more  fweetly  mad. 

Heretofore  1  did  not  ufe.  to 
give  .much  regard  to  /lories, 
that  are  told  commonly  of  ap- 
paritions ;  but  hereajter,  IfhalT 
give  m'ich  lefs  ;  for  I  fufpeel: 
that  m a n  v  t h  i ng s  h a v e  b e e n  d e - 
li versa  in  bocks   for  true   by 

pro 


ALCUMIST1CA, 


55 


pro  viris    ab    credulis  credulous  men,   and  men    like 

hominibus,  et  fimilibus  Faun,    which    have  been  con- 

Fauno%<{ivc£  adfimilata  trived  by  the  like  art, 
Junt  fimiii  artifiao. 

~    B.  Ego  credo  plera-  •    I  believe  the  mo jl part  are  of 

que  effe  hujus  generis.  this  kind. 


4LCUM1S7ICA. 


A./^\UID    nova,   rei 
^C/  ejl  quod  Lai  us 

r\dct  /ic   apud  fefe,  fu- 

binde  (ignans  fe  cruce  ? 

inter pellabo  felicitatem 

ho  minis.      Salve    viul- 

tum,  amiciflime    Lale. 

Vide  re  mihi   admodum 

felix. 

B.  Atque  ero  felici- 

or,  fi    impertiarn    tibi 

hoc  gaudium. 

A.  Fac  igitur  bea- 
tum  me  quampnmum. 

B.  NoHi  Balbinum  ? 

A.  Ilium  eritditunv 
fenem,  ac  laudato  ?z- 
toz. 

B.  Sic  ejl  ut  diets % 
fed  ^  null  us  mortali- 
um  qui  /i^tf  omnibus 


WHAT  nerd  tiling  is  there 
that  Ztf/^J"  laughs /t» 
with  himfelf;  w<?z^  and  then 
figning  h i mfelj "with  thecrofs? 
/o/?7/  interrupt  the  felicity  (?/" 
/^  wtf/z.  God  fave  you  &!«<$«, 
my  good  friend  Lalus.  You 
Jeem  to  me  very  happy. 

But  IJJiall  be  more  happy, 
if  I  impart  to  you  this  joy. 

See  therefore  you  make  me 
happy  as  Jo  on  as  pojfible. 

Have  you  known  Balbinus? 

That  learned  old  man^/.'^of 
a  commendable  ///ie. 

So  he  if  as  you  Jay,  but  l£ir£ 

is  no  one  <?/*  mankind,  who    £i 

o///£  at  all  hours i  and  20/10  is  z>* 

horis. 


5« 


ALCUMIST1CA. 


koris,  ant  q 
quaque  perte&u-s.  Ills 
vir  habet  hoc  navi  in- 
ter multas  egrcgias  do- 
tes. Jam  oTim  infanit 
in  artem  quam  vacant 
-Ale u mi  ft i cam. 

A.  Haud  tu  narras 
nceviun  quictern,  Jed  in- 
fignem  morbum. 

B.  Utcunque  £/?,  ille 
toties  delufus  ab  hoc 
geneie  ho  mi  nu?n,  tamen 
paffus  ejl  fibi  c/^rz  ver- 
^mirifice  dudum. 

A.  Quo  pa£lo  ? 

B.  Quidam facerdos 
adiitz7/w?tf,falutavit  ho- 
norifice  :  Mox  yfr  ex- 
orfus  eft,  DoffJJime 
Balbine,  ?ni?-a!?ere  tor- 
tafis,  quod  ignotus  in- 
terpellem  te  Jlc,    quern 

Jcio  nunquam  non  <?£- 
cupatijjimum  fan&iffi- 
mis  jtudiis.  Balbinus 
annuit,  qui  £$  illimos, 
w*t/«  eft  mire  parcus 
verb  or  urn. 

A.  Narras  argumen- 
tum  prudential. 

B.  Verum  alter  pru- 
dent ior  per  git  fie.  Ttf- 
7^^/z  ignofces  wear  im- 
portunitati  ft  cognoris 
caufam  cw  adierim  te. 


ui  fit  unde*  alt  refpe&s  perfect.  TWmart 
AiZi  this  blemifh  among  772*2 rcy 
excellent  qualities.  He  has 
been  for  fome  time  mad  upon 
the  art  which  they  co.ll  Alcu- 
miftic. 

You  do  not  talk  of  a  blemiJJi 
truly,  but  a  confiderable  d]f 
temper. 

Howfoever  it  is,  he  Jo  oj'ten 
deluded  by  this  fort  oj  men, 
y&fujfered  himfelf  to  be  im- 
pojed  upon  wonderfully  Jome 
time  ago. 

After  what  manner  f 

A  certain  prie/t  went  to  him, 
faluted  him  rejpeftfully ;  By 
and  by  thus  he  began,  mojl 
learned  Balbinus,  you  will  won- 
der perhaps,  that  I  a  ftranger 
to  you,  Jliould  break  in  upon 
you  thus,  whom  /  know  to  be 
always  very  bujy  in  the  mod 
facred Jludies.  Balbinus  nod- 
ded to  him,  which  is  his  cuf- 
tom,  Jor  he  is  wonderfully 
fparing  oj  words. 

You  tell  me  an  argument  of 
his  prudence. 

But  tk£  other  being  more 
prudent,  goes  on  thus.  Yet 
you  will  pardon  my  importu- 
nity, when  ^ou  know  the 
caujet  why  /  have  come  to  you. 
Dic% 


ALCUMISTICA.  57 

Dic,inquitBalbinus,kd  Tell  me,  fays  Balbinus,  but  in 
paucis  fi  potes.  Dicam,  a  few  words,  if  you  can.  I 
inquit  tile,  quanto  will  tell  you, faith  he,  with  as 
compendio^0/er0:fcis,  great  brevity  as/  c*in.  You 
dotlifjimevir,  fata  77207*-  know,  ra^  learned  Jir,  that 
talium  elie  varia.  E-  the  fates  of  men  are  various.  I 
go  nefciq  in  utro  nume-  know  not  in  which  number  I 
r<?  ponam  772<?t  felicium,  mud  rank  myfelf,^  of  the  hap- 
fl/zinfelicium.  Etenim  py,  07-  the  unhappy,  /07-  if  / 
fi  contemplor  meurn/tf-  w'*ai  my  fate  on  one  fide,  / 
/ww  ex  altera  parte,  pi-  /?£#*  to  myfelf  t/*ry  happy  ;  if 
dfo?r  inihi  pulchre  fe-  on  the  other  nothing  jj  more 
//a:  /  fi  ^  altera,  nihil  unhappy  //20/2-  ;;z^.  Balbinus 
*/?  infeiicius  w^.  Bal-  urging  him,  that  Ad  fliould 
bino  urgente,  ut  confer-  bring  his  matter  "7/7/0  afhort 
ret  rem  incompendium  ;  compafs  ;  1  will  make  an  end, 
finiam,  inquit,  doflifli-  ^#0M  /2^,  moft  learned  Balbi- 
me  Balbine.  Id  £/-2/  72  &i.  That  &'z7/  />£  more  eafy 
faciiius  7722/h*  apud  vi-  /0/-  772^  with  a  man,  /0  whom 
rum,  raz  hoc  totum  ne-  this  20/20/^  bufinefs  ti  fo  a/*// 
gotiurn  efiSic  notumut  known,  that  it  is  better  known 
toties  nulli.        •  to  no  body. 

A.Depingis  rhetorem        You    defcribe  a  rhetorician 
mihi,.  non  .alcumiftam.    to  me,  72c?/  an  Alcumift. 

B.  M.ox  audies  alcu-  By  aud  by  you  will  hear  of 
mifiam,  HceP felicitas,  theAlcumilr.  J/z/jhappinefs, 
inquit,  contigit  mihi  a  yi/M  he,  befel  ?;z<?  from  a  child, 
puero,  &/  difcerem  ar-  that  I  mould  learn  <2/2  art,  the 
temmzximeexpetenda?n  moi\  to  be  defired  oi  all,  M<7/ 
omnium,  2  //^2  /72  alcu-  Alcumiflic  art,  I  fay,  the  mar- 
mi  fticam,  inquam,  me-  row  of  all  philofophy.  Bal- 
dullani  totius  philofo-  bmus  was  awakened  a  little  at 
phiac.  Balbinus  ex-  the  name  of  the  Alcumiflic  art, 
porre£lus  eft  nonnihil  in  gefrure  only  ;  but  he  order- 
ed num.cn  alcumijiices,  edlxim  with  a  groan,  that  he 
geflu  tantum%  caster  urn    fliould  go    on.     Then  he  fays% 


5« 


ALCUMISTICA. 


jujit  gemitu,  ut  perge- 
ret.  Turn  ille  inquit, 
0  rne  miferum  !  qui 
non  inci^erim  in  tarn 
viam,  quam  oportuit. 
Cum  Balbinus  rogajfet 
quafnam  vias  dice  ret. 
Scis,  inquit  ^/m/rfnam 
quid  fugit  te,  B  alb  me, 
virum  uiicHquaquedkr- 
tiJfimuMj  efle  d  up  Ire  em 
viam  huj-ws  artis,  #/?er- 
#<m  qine  dicitur  ton- 
gatio,  alteram  quae  fife'- 
ra#*tr  curtatio.  A  con- 
tfgit  razih'  quodam  am* 
iv  fato  incidere  in  !on- 
gattonem.  Balbino 

fcifcitanti,  quodnam 
«Hfcrimen  vianm  cffet, 
imp  ud en  tern  ?ne,  inquit, 
4^  loquor  ^c  apud 
te,  cW  fciam  omnia 
hxc  ^fe  fie  wto,  ut 
n&tvriora  nulli.  /ta- 
y#<?  accmrri  Aaf  ad  te 
jitppkx,  ut  mifertus 
noftri  dignererisimptT- 
tiri  72£?Hjr  iWamjelicijfi- 
mam  viatn  curtatio nis. 
Quo  pcritior  es  hujus 
artis,  hoc  minore  ?*£- 
^0*20  potes  tommuni- 
cart  nobis.  /ta  Jefus 
Chriftus  locupletet  te 
fcruper  majorities  doti* 


O  woe's   me  !    who   did   not 

light  upon  that  way,  zvhich  I 
ought.  JF/^^n  Balbinus  ajked 
him  what  z^jyj  he  meant.  You 
know,  quoth  he,  good  fir,  (for 
s^/4<z/  efcapes  y0w,  Balbinus,  a 
man  in  all  refpe&s  the  mofi 
learned)  that  there  is  a  double 
way  cj  this  art,  072?  0/  which 
is  called  longation,  another 
which  is  called  curtation.  But 
h  happened  to  me  by  fome  ill 
fate  to  jail  upon  longation. 
Balbinus  aiking  what  the  dif- 
ference oj  the  ways  was,  i?npu~ 
dent  that  I  am,  quoth  he,  who 
fpeak  thefe  things  before  you, 
to  whom  I  know  all  thefe 
things  are  fo  well  known,  that 
they  are  better  knozvn  to  no- 
body. Therefore  1  have  come 
hither  to  you  hu?nbly  begging, 
that  pitying  us  ^'0#  would 
vouchfaje  to  impart  /0  z/j  that 
77Z0/2  Atf^/7  way  of  curtation. 
By  how  much  the  mortjkilful 
you  are  in  this  art,  with  fo 
much  the  lefs  trouble  can  you 
communicate  it  to  us.  So  may 
Jefus  Chrift  enrichjy0fc  always 
with  greater  gifts,  ff^i^tt  he 
did  not  ?naie  an  end  of  entreat- 
ing, Balbinus  was  forced  /0 
conjefs,  that  he  200 i  wholly  ig- 
norant what  longation  or  <rx/r- 

taft'0»  was.     /fr  #<$  ^  ex" 

bu« 


ALCUMISTICA. 


S9 


bus.  Cumhicncn  faceret 
jinem  obteftandi,  Balbi- 
niis  coa&us  eft  fattri, 
fe  prorfus  ignvrare, 
quid  long  at  ia  aut  cur- 
taiio  eifet  :  jubetexpa- 
nat  ipfe  vim  karu?n.  vo- 
cum.  Turn,  inquit  ille 
quanquam  fcia  rue  lo- 
qui  peritiorir  iarnen 
quando  jubes  ita,faci- 
eun ;  qui  contriverunt 
totam  mtatem  in  hac  di- 
vina  arte,  vertunt  fpe- 
cies  r&rum  duabus  ra- 
tionibus,  altera  qua  eft 
brevior,  fed  /ztf^zfpluf- 
culum  pericidiy  altera 
^&z  eft  longior,  fed  ^z- 
dkw  tutior.  £0-0  vide- 
or  ;«zAnnfelix,  ^&ihac- 
tsnus  fudari?n  inea^M, 
quae  /?##  arridet  meo 
ammo-  :  nequc  potui 
naucifci  quenquam  qui 
1W&*  indicare  alteram 
cujus  arnore  depereo. 
Tandem  Deus  immifit 
in  mentem,  ut  adirem 
tc%  virum  nan  minus  \f\- 
um  qu  a  m  d  o£tu ra .  /)•<?  c - 
trina  praftat  tibi,  ut 
poffis  iacile  afore  quod 
peto  ;  pietas  commovc- 
bit,  ut  z/f&'j  opitulare 
'r^fr^  tu}usjidus  eft 


pound  himfelf  the  fignificafcion 
of  thoje  words.  Then  faith  &?,. 
though  /  A??0&;  If  peak  to  one 
more  fkilful,  ^/  fince^w  <?r- 
afcr  fo,  /  will  d&  it.  They 
who  have  J'ptnt  their  whole 
life  in  this  divine  art,  change 
the  fpecies  of  things  two  zz/ajy.*, 
©ne  which  is  £&e  fhorter,  but. 
j^&j-  a  good  deal  gf  danger,  a- 
nother  which  is  longer,  bxnthe 
Jams  is  fafer.  I  kemto  myfelf 
unhappy,  zt>/z0  hitherto  Aot^ 
fweat  in  that  &'<r)',  which  aWi 
»0/  pleafe  my  zrczW,  neither 
a?*j/a  /^/  tf/?-)»  cw,  that  would 
fhew  me  /Ae  other,  with  the 
love  of  which  /  perijli.  At 
la  ft  God  put  it  into  my  mind 
that  /  Jhould  come  to,  you.  a 
man  wolefs  pious.  //2-2«  learned. 
Your  learning  enables  you,  that 
you  can  eafily  Wz/e  what  I  afk; 
your  piety  wm  move  you,  that 
_)•'#«  apt//  help  &  brother,  whofe 
prejervation  you  have  272  ^«.r 
power.  That  I  may  not  make 
it  tedious,  when  that  cheat  Iwd 
removed 'all  fufpicions  of  rogue- 
ry from  himfelf  a 7 '//*  Afe?  IfexJ 
0/  /^/4  and  /z#df  ;/2#.</£  him  be- 
lieve,  that  the  other  zvay.  was 
r^r^y  rzWZ  known  to  hiin,/<?.r 
/0//?^  /z?/z#  Balbinus'  mrnd\w\\r 
ed.  At  length  not  command- 
iog  kiwi/elf,  he  lavs, farewell  ta 

tibi 


So 


ALCUMISTICA. 


tibi  in  manu.  Ne.  fa- 
ciam  longum,  cum  ille 
veterator  amovijfet  fuf- 
picionem^Wi  a  fe  hu- 
jufmodis  Jer?nonibus,  ac 
Jtc\J[e  jidem,  alteram 
vi am  tile  perfpetlijji- 
mam  fibi,  jampridem 
Balbini  animus  prurie- 
bat.  Tandem  non  tem- 
peransy%z,  inquit,  Va- 
le at  ilia  curt  alio,  cujns 
nomen  ne  audivi  qui- 
dem  unquam,  tantum 
ab  eft  ut  teneam,  die 
mihi  bona  fide  tenefne, 
longationem  exacle  ? 
Phy  !  inquit  \\\e,adun- 
guem,  led  longitudo 
difplicet.  Cum  Balbi- 
nus rogajfet  quantum 
temp  oris  requireretur. 
Nimium,  inquit,  pent 
tot  us  annus,  fed  z>/^- 
rz/7/  eft  tutijjima.  Ne 
hhoYzJnquit  Balbinus, 
etiamji  fit  ^^/j  bien- 
nio,  mo  do  fidas  /z/^  ar- 
ti.  Ut  conferam  rem 
in  pauca  ;  convenit  in- 
ter eos,  a*  aggrederen- 
tur  m;*  clam  in  cedibus 
Balbini,  hac  lege  ut  ille 
fuppecfitaret  opera  mt 
Balbinus  fumptum  ac 
lucrum    divideretur  ex 


that  curtation,  whofe  name  T 
have  not  fo  much  as  heard  ev- 
er, fo  far  arri  I  from  under- 
ftanding  it,  tell  me  in  good 
faith,  do  you  under/rand  lon- 
gation  exaclly  ?  Puh  \fays  he, 
to  a  tittle,  but  the  length  dijl 
pleafes  me.  When  Balbinus 
had  ajked,  how  much  time  was 
required,  Too  much,  fays  he, 
almoflz  whole  year,  but  2»  //*£ 
;tz^;j  time  it  is  very  fa fe.  Do 
not  trouble  yourfelf, /iyj  Bal- 
binus, though  there  be  occajion 
for  two  years,  provided  you 
can  tmjft  to  your  art.  That! 
may  bring  M*  matter  into  few 
words  :  //  &;# j  agreed  betwixt 
them,  ^tf/  they  mould  attempt 
the  matter  privately  in  the 
houfe  of  Balbinus,  upon  this 
condition,  that  he  fhould  give 
his  labor,  Balbinus  the  charge, ' 
and  the  gain  mould  be  divided 
equally  and  fairly,  though  the 
mode  [I  cheat  offered,  of  his 
own  accord,  to  Balbinus  the 
whole  gain  that  fuould  accrue. 
They  (wore  on  both  fides  to  fi- 
lence,  which  they  do  who  are 
initiated  ifc  myfierits*  Now 
prifently  money  7 s  paid, where- 
with ^  #77?yi  fhould  buy^tf^, 
glaffes/W,  and  other  things, 
which  are  proper^ r  furmfli-  ■ 
rftg  the  forge.     There  our  -#/- 


ALCUMI5TICA. 


6i 


etfuo  et  bono,  quanquam 
modejlus  impoftor  de* 
ferrebat  ultro  Balbino 
totumlucrum  quod  pro- 
veniret.  Juratum  eft 
utrinque  de  filentio, 
quvd  faciunt  qui  initi- 
antur  inmyjlriis.  Jam 
illico  pecunia  numera- 
/#r,unde  artifexmerca- 
r.etur  ollas,  vitra,  car- 
bones,  reliquaq^ue,  qua 
pertinent  ad  injlruen* 
dam  officinam.  Ibi 
nofter  alcumijla  deco- 
quit  ea?n  pecuniam  fu- 
aviter  in  fcorta,  akam 
et  compotationes. 

A.  Hoc  nimirum  eft 
vert  ere  fpecies    rerum. 

B.  Balbino  urgente, 
ut  aggrederetur  rem,#« 
non  tenes,  inquit,  illud^ 
Qui  capit  bene,  habet 
dimidium  facli  ?  Eft 
magnum  praeparareflza- 
teriam  bene.  Tandem 
fornax  caepit  adornari. 
Hie  rurfus  eratopusno* 
vo  auro  veluti  illecebra 
auri  venturi  ;  Jiquidem 
ut  pifcisnoncapituv  abf- 
que  ejea,  fie  aurum 
non  provenit  alcumifhs, 
nifi  pars  auri  admifct- 
nlur.      Interea   Balbi- 


cumiji  fpends  that  money 
fweetly  upon  whores,  dice  and 
drinking* 


This  indeed  is  to  change  the 
fpecies  0/  things. 

Balbinus  urging  him.,  that 
hejhouldfet  about  the  bufinefs, 
do younot  under/land,  fays  het 
that,  he  that  hath  begun  well, 
has  done  \\M  his  work?  It  is 
a  great  thing  to  prepare  jy^^r 
materials  well.  ^  length  the 
furnace  ^w^  to  be  prepared, 
/ten?  again  M*r*  am  need  of 
new  gold,  # j  zV  were  a  wheedie 
<?/  //z<f  gold  that  was  to  come 
For  as  <z  yf/X  is  not  taken  with* 
out  a  bait,  fo  gold  comes  not 
to  the  Alcunujls,  unlefs  a  par- 
cel of  gold  is  mixed.  In  the 
mean  time   Balbinus  was  all 

nus 


62 


ALCUMISTICA. 


wis  crat  tot  us  in  fup- 
purationibns.  Nam 

f  ubducebat,/?  uncia^a- 
reret quindecim,  quan- 
tum lucri  ^/  reditu- 
ru))i  ex  />?  j-  7/2?//^  unciis ; 

decreverat  injurfoe- 
re  tantum.  Cu*i  A  leu- 
mi  ft  a    dec  ox"' [f et    hanc 

■nam  quoque,jflw 
c7^£   fimulaffet  mult  urn 

7.     circa  folles    et 
t  <s /  bonis t    unura     77/<?t2  • 
' :  /7  a t q u e  alter u m ,  Ra  1  - 
oino     rogante     acquid 
vesprocederet ;  primum 
obmutuir,    tandem  ref- 
p  o  n  dil     u  rgen  iiM     fi  c  u  t 
j •'•• ;  (T  cla  ret  re  s  Jo  lent,  q  u  se 
kabfM    femper   diffici- 
le s    a  di tus ,        6V/  ar/<i  0d  * 
z1 w /  •  c  r  ra  1 1 1  m  i  n  ernen  di  s 
carbonibus  :   nam  erne- 
rat,  quern qs    cum    effet 
opus    abiegais    aut  co- 
lurnis.        Ibi     centum 
aufei  perierant.       Nee 
redierunt  ad   aleameo 
jcirnrk'$i    Nova  pecunia 
cia  ia,      car  bones       mu- 
tantur  :    famqne      res 
cj'ptdr/l    vAdjore Jludio 
ciuam  07#<?4  ;  quemad- 
iT.ocium  in   btllo,    mili- 
tes,//quid    acadit  fe- 
cus  tffrtf?»    vellent,/^r- 


upon     calculations.       i^r   he 
reckoned,  if  one   ounce  would 
produce  fifteen,  howmuch  prof- 
it  zvould  accrue  from  two  thou- 
/and ounces; for  he  had  deter-  ' 
mined    to    lay    out    fo    much. 
When  the  Alcumift   had  f pent 
this  money    too,  and  now    had 
pretended  to  abundance  of  pains 
about  the  'bellows  and  fuel,  one 
month  and    another,   ,Balbinu& 
afking  if  the  Bufineft  advanced 
any  thing  ;  at  firfl  he    was  fi- 
lent,    at    length    he    anfvvered 
him,  being  urgent  with  him,  as 
great  things    life   to  do,   which 
havealwaysdffcult  beginnings. 
He  pretended  there   was  a  mif- 
take  made    in  buying  the  char- 
coal :    For  he  had  bought  oak, 
whereas  he  had  occafwn  for  fir 
or  hazel.       There  a    hundred 
crowns  were    gone.     Not  did 
they    return    to    the  game    for 
that  the  more  backward!)'.  New 
money  being  given,  charcoal  is 
changed  ;  and  now   the   thing 
was  begun   with  greater  eager- 
nefs    tha'n  before  :    As  772  ^^r, 
foldiers^/  any  thing    happens 
otherwifeMtf/2  they  could  wiih, 
mend     it  by.    their     courage. 
When  the  forge  had  been   heat- 
ed  now  /tf77?£    months,    and  a 
golden  produtl  w^as    expefted, 
M^tiot  a  &y  truly  ofgoldw  as 
ciunt 


ALCUMISTICA. 


Oq 


ciunt  virtute.  Cum  offi- 
cimjervjfet  jamaliquot 
menfes,  ^  aureus  fcetus 
«xpectaretur,  #/  ne  mi* 
ia  quid  em  auri  efTet  in 
vafts,  [nam  jam  alcu- 
mifta  decoxerat  et  0#z- 
?z£  illud)  alia  caufatio 
invent  a  ejl,  nimirum, 
.  vitra  q nib  us  ufus  Jue- 
rat,  non  fuifTe  temper  a- 
ta  ficut  oportuit.  Ete- 
nim  &/  Mercurius  non 
Jit  ex  quovis  ligno,  ita 
aurum  non  confiatur 
quibuflibet  vitris.Quo 
plus  erat  impenJum,hoc 
minus  libebat   defiftere. 

A.  Sic  aleatores  fo- 
lent  ;  quafi  non  fit 
multo  fatis  perdere  hoc 
^w^77i  totum. 

B.  Sic  eft,  Alcumif- 
ta  dejerabat  nunquam 
impofi'um     fuifTe    fibi 

Jtc.  Nunc  errore  de-" 
prehenfo  cater  a  foretu- 
iiora,  et  feje  farturum 
hoc  difpendii  mag  no 
cum  fcenore*  Vans 
mutatis,  officina  injtau- 
rata  eft  tertio.  Alcu- 
mijla  admonebat  rem 
fucceiFuram  /elicius,  fi 
mitteret  aliquot  aureos 
dooo  virgini  ttiatrr,£(f£ 


in  the  vejjels,  (for  now  tllfc  AI- 
cumx&Jiad  Jpait  alfo  all  that) 
another  pretence  was  Jo  una 
out,  to  wit,  that  the  gfoffts 
which  'kt  had  uja,  had  not 
been  tempered  a$. they  ought. 
For  as  a  mercury  is  not  made 
out  o\  any  wood,y2>  gold  is  not 
made  with  any  glajfcs.  By 
how  much  the  more  was  /rifrf 
0/^,  by  fo  much  the  lets  had 
he  a  mind  to  dejjft. 


So  gamejlers  ufe  to  do  ;  tfj 
though  it  were  not  «tfCjfc  bet- 
ter to  loje  that  than  all. 

So    i/   z'j\      The     Alcumift 
/wore  thac  he  was  never  im noT- 
ed  on///,     Now  the  mijtake  . 
ing  dii covered,  ///<?    r,t/r  w< 
be  Jajer,    and    /^/   Ac?   wo  tit  S 
make  up  this   lofs    a#i$   gri<^ 
advantage.     The  glafTes  & 
changed,  the  forge  waj  Jurnijn- 
ed  a  third  time.      The  Ala 
put  him  in  mind,  that  then, 
would  fucceed  more  happily.  \\ 
hejtnt  fome  crowns  as  a   pivf- 
ent  to  the  virgin  'mother;  iv4>rt 
is  worshipped,  as  you  know  at 
coiit«ra 


64 


ALCUMISTICA. 


colitur,  ut  lc\s,Paraliis, 
nam  artem  effe  facram 
neque  remgeri  prof  per e, 
abfque  favore  numinum. 
Id  conftliumvehemQnter 
flacuit  Balbino  pio  ho- 
mini,  ut  qui  pretermit- 
teret  null  urn  diem  quin 
perageret  dmnam  rem. 
Alciumjla  fufcepit  re- 
ligiojam  prof  eft  ion  em, 
mmirum,  in  proximum 
oppidum,  atque  ibi  de- 
eoxit  pecum&m  in  gan- 
eis.  Reverfus  donuim 
ntmciat  iibi  efle  /«w- 
mum  fpem,  negetium 
fucceflurum  £#  Jen  ten  • 
tia%  adeo  divam  vifam 
annuere  fais  votis.  £/<£? 
fu  da  turn  effetjam  multo 
tempore,  at  ne  mica 
quulem  auri  nafceretur 
ufquam,  refpondit  Bal- 
bino  expojlulanti,  nihil 
tale  unquam  accidi]] e  fi* 
hi  1«  i-'z'ta,  experto  artem 
toties,  tw  polle  conjee- 
tare  iatis  #^V/  effet  az#- 
y<2.  Ouum  druinatum 
tjfet  dm,  tandem  illud 
ftutz/  in  mentem  Balbi- 
ni  nura  prater  mi fiffet 
quo  die  audire  lac  rum, 
«tt/  dicere/Wtfntfjpre* 
k;c*>  quas  vocant.  Nam 
nlA;/  iuccedere  //2i  o- 
miilis.  J£*  impollor 
inquit,  mc    miferum   ! 


Paralia,  for  /A*  dr/  was /acred, 
nor  would  the  thing  be  managed 
fuccefslully  without  the  favor 
0/^  Me  faints.  That  advice 
mightily  pleafed  Balbinus,  a 
/72^wj*  man,  dj  who  omitted  no 
</#>%  but  ^  performed  divine 
fervice.  The  Alcumijl  under- 
took the  religious  journey,  to 
wit,  into  the  next  town,  and 
there  he  fpent  the  money  in  tav- 
erns. Being  rcturnedhome,  he 
tells- him,  that  he  had  the  great- 
efl  hopes  that  the  bu fine] s  would 
tucceed  to  their  mind,  fo  the 
Jaint  fcemed  to  agree  to  his 
prayers.  When  he  had  fweat 
now  a  long  time,  and  not  a  bit 
indeed  of  gold  was  produced 
anywhere,  he  anjwered  Balbi. 
nus,  expqflulating,  that  no  fuch 
thing  had  ever  happened  to  him 
in  his  life,  having  tried  his  art 
lb  often  ;  nor  could  he  guefs 
well  what  was  the  r eaten* 
When  they  had  gueffed  a  long 
time,  at  length  that  came  into 
the  mind  of  Balbinus,  whether 
he  had  omitted  any  day  to  hear 
mafs,  oriohytke  horary  pray- 
ers, as  they  call  thenu  For  noth- 
ing would  fucceed,  thefe  being 
omitted.  There  the  cheat ]ays, 
woe's  me  !  Mtf/  was  done  . 
through  for getfulnejs  once  and 
agafn  :  Arid  lately  n/5V?£  from 
a  long  feaft,  I  forgot  to  lay  M* 
falutation  of  the  virgin.  2ftm 
Balbinus /ayj,   no  .wonder,   ?/ 


ALCUMISTICA. 


xWadmiflum  eft  per  ob- 
livibnem  femel  at  que 
iterum,  et  nu per  Jurl 
gens  a  prolix o  conviv- 
lb,  oblitus  fum  dicere 
falutationem  virgin  is. 
Turn  Balbinus  inquit. 
Non  mirum,y£tanta  res 
non  fuccedit.  Artifex 
recipit,  pro  dtiobus,/i- 
en s  p  r 3£ t er m  i  fii  s ,  au di  ■ 
turum  -duodecim,  et  pro 
unica  falutatione  re.po/t- 
turum  decern.  Cum 
pecunia  deficijfet  prodi- 
gurn  alcumiflam  lb  bin - 
de,  nee  caufe  petendi 
fuppeterent,  tandem 
commentus  eft  kanc 
technam;  rediit  domum 
admodum  exanimatus  ; 
ac  lamentabili  voce,  pe- 
ril, inquit,  funditus, 
Balbine,  peril,  actum  efl 
de  capire  raeo.  Balbi- 
nus obflupuit,  et  avebat 
J  are  caufam  tan'fi.  maii. 
Au ha  f ubo  d e  ra  f  i  f u  n  t , 
inquit.  quod  egimus  ; 
nee  expetlo  aliuri  quam 
ut  mox  deducar  in  car- 
cerem.  Ad  hanc  vocem 
Balbinus  expalluit  fe~ 
no.  Nam  fas  apud 
nos  effe  capitale,  ft  quis 
tx ere  eat  alcurnifiicam 
ah/ que  perm  i  flu  pr  ma- 
ps. II ie  pergit.  Non 
metuo  mortem,  inquit, 
utinam  ilia   conturgat  ; 

F2 


fo  great  a  thing  doe?:  nor  fuc- 
ceed.  l  77;  <?  <zr///?  promifVsJ^r 
two  rndffes  omitted,"  /AVft  /z* 
'  would  Ilea rtwelve,^ rctf . to r  o ne 
h\ina\ion, would  pay  ten.  When 
money  failed  the  prodigal  Al~ 
cumiji  now  and  then,  and  no 
pretences  for  a  filing  occured, 
at  length  he  invented  this  inch  ; 
he  returned  home  very  muck 
frighted  ;  Sid  with  a  lamenta- 
ble voice 9  I  am  undone,/c7vi  he, 
utterly,  Balbinus,  I  am  undone, 
there  is  an  end  of  my  life.  Bal- 
binus was  amazed,  and  deft  red 
to  know  the  caufe  of  fo  great  a 
calamity.  The  courtiers  hr.vo 
fmelt  out,  fays  he,-  what  toe 
have  done  ;  nor  do  1  expect  any- 
thing elfe  than  that  by  and  by  I 
{hall  be  carried  to  pr fori,  At 
this  faying,  Balbinus  was  pale 
in  good  earrteji.  For  )foa  knom 
with  us  it  is  capital,  if  any  cne 
exercifs  the  alcumiliit:  art' 
without  the  perm  i  {Ron  oft  fie 
Prince,  tit  goes  oh.  1  do  not 
fear  diofk,  faith  he,  /  a;//&  that 
may  bfal  me  ;  I  tear  foinct /v njr 
more  cruel.  He  fay,  to  bin*; 
afking  7t;,W  it  was,  /  Jkail  be 
carried  forne  whither  ?>//<?  cz 
(iwf  ;  there  1  jliail  be  forced 
f o r  all  my  1  i f e , / 0  a; £ / -^  ft i r  t h o  1  e 
for  whom  I  have  no  mind.  Is 
there  any  <&o//%  which  ought 
not  to  he  more  x:  a  Utah  I e  than 
/id?  a  life  ?  7/Wc?  the  matter 
was  examined  in  confutation. 
Balbinus;  Beeaufe  &  underflood 
metuo 


66 


ALCUMISTICA. 


metuo  quiddam  crude- 
lius.        Inquit     roganti 
quid eilet,  rapiaraliquo 
in  turrim  ;    illic   cogar 
per  omnem   vitam   labo- 
ran   litis  qinbus  non  li- 
bet.     yi/2  ei£  ul la  mors, 
quae  ftrr/z  dcbeat  effe  ptf- 
tfu>r  quatn  /a/z'j  vita  ?  I- 
bi  res   ventilata  ejl  con- 
fuitatione .  ifa  Ibinusq  u  o- 
niarn  ca/iebat  ailem  rhe- 
toricam,  pulfavit  omnes 
flatus  fi  tf&rt   periculum 
p0^<tf  vitari.      AW  £0- 
/ci-  inficiari  crimen  f  in- 
quit.       Ncquaquam,  ait 
?7/£,     Res  Jpurja  ejl  in- 
ter   rfgwj  fateliites;  ^ 
habent  argumenta^  qiue 
/2  c  /?  />(^tf  ^  d  i  1  a  i .     Nee 
poterat  Jaclum  quidem 
defh\di   ob    mamjejlam 
legem.     Cum  mmiis  ad m 
dutlis  in    medium,    tii* 
(h zetur  nibi  1^ ///2 /  p r ce- 
fidii,  tandem  alcumiila, 
cui  erat  jam  <?/?#.*•  pne- 
fenti    pecunia,     inquit, 
uos,     .naibine,    agvnils 
lentis    confirms  ;     atqui 
r<i  pofcit  pro? fens  re  me- 
dium.    Arbitror   adju- 
euros  jam,  gai  abripiant 
;??£  in  malemre-Trc.     Z)^- 
fi?#w£  cum  wzVzzV  occur- 
reret    Balbino,  tandem 
aftumijta     inquit,    nee 
quidquam  cccurrit  mi. 


the  art  ot  rhetoric,  run  over  all 
his  topics,  if  any  way  the  dan- 
ger could  be  avoided.  Cannot 
you  deny  the  crime  ?  fays  he» 
By  no  means,  fays  he.  The 
thing  rsJpreadamongtheKing's 
guards  ;  and  they  have  proofs 
which  cannot  be  confuted.  Nor 
ccuid  the  fad  indeed  be  defnd. 
ed,  becaufe  of  a  plain  law.  When 
after  many  thing  produce  a f  be- 
twixt th enV^r*  appeared  noth- 
ing of  good  fecurity,  ^  length 
the  alcumift,  a/&?  A'rt</  now 
need  o^i  prefent  money  ^  fays,  Z£tf, 
Baibinus,  <2#  by  flow  counfels  >• 
but  //^  ^<>;o-  requires  #  prejent 
remedy.  I  fuppofe  M^y  will 
be  here  prefently,  that  will  hur- 
ry me  into  an  evil  conditiqp. 
Lajlly  when  nothing  occured 
to  Baibinus \  at  length  the  alcu* 
vtift  fays,  nor  does  any  thing 
occur  to  me,  nor  do  I  Jet  any 
thing  left,  unlefs  that  I  die 
bravly.  unlefs  perhaps  this 
pleqfe  youx  which  alone  is  left, 
if  Jul  rather  than  honorable, 
but  that  necefjity  is  a  hard  weap- 
on. y&a  W,  quoth  he,  ^/?/ 
M?j  foit  0/  7^;*  are  greedy  ot 
money;  and  thef^fore  may  £e 
corrupted  more  eafily /0  te^r* 
/<?/?/.  Although  ?/  be  a  hard 
cafe  /0  give  to  thofe  rafcals  to 
fpend,  >r/  as  matters  now  <zr<?T 
I  fee  nothing  better.  The  fame 
thing  feemVd  good  to  Baibinus, 
and  he  counted  out  thirty  pi  ces 

¥4 


ALCUiMISnCA. 


fy 


ki,  nee  yidtQ  quidquam 
jumper cp.,  nili  ui  peream 
for  titer  ;  nifi  fort  a  hoc 
placet, q\x&&  unum  iuper- 
eft  ttftAf  magis  quam 
hone  flu  m  mfi  quod  ne- 
cejfitas  eft  durum  4e~ 
lum.  £m  inquit.  hoc 
genus  ho  m  %  n  u  m  c  ffe  a- 
vidum  pecuniae;  etf(/&s 
pofle  corrumpi  facinus 
utfileant  J  quamvis  fii 
durum  dare  il lis  furcii 
Jens  quod  profundanb 
tam;n  uteres  nunc  funt 
video  w?>4j/  melius.  I- 
dem  vifum  eft  Balbino^ 
ac  numeravit  triginta 
aureos,  quibus  redinie- 
rtt  filentium. 

A.  Liberalitas  Balbi- 
m  eft  /#z>#. 

B.Imo  alius  exiudif 
fes  dentem  ah  eo  quam 
nummum  in  honefta  re. 
Sic  profpecium  eft  ahu- 
mijlcr,  cui  nihil  erat  pe- 
riculi,  niJi<\uo&  non  ka- 
beret  quoA  daret  arnica. 

A.  Demiror  nihil  effe 
nafi  Balbino  in  tanlum. 

B.  Heic  lantum  ca- 
fet  nafot  nafutiflimus  in 
ceteris.  Kurfum  for- 
nax  inftruitur  novate- 
cunia,  fed  precatiuncula 
prximjfa  ad  virginem 
matrem%  ut  faveret 
cceptis*  Jam  totus  an- 
nus exierat    dum    illo 


of  gold,  whereby  he  mtght  pur* 
chafe  filenc-e. 


The  liberality  of  Balbinus  is 
wonderful. 

Nay,  you  mouldfooner  have 
got  a  tooth  from  him  than  a 
piece  of  money  in  an  hone  ft 
matter.  Thus  provifion  was 
made  for  thealcumifl,  who  was 
in  no  danger,  but  that  he  had 
not  to  give  to  his  Mifs. 

I  wonder  Balbinus  Jhould 
have  nofenfe  to  fuch  a  degree. 

Here  only  he  wanta^w/?,  be* 
ing  fenfible  enough  in  other 
things.  Again  the  furnace  is 
fitted  up  with  nezv  money,  but 
with  a  prayer  put  up  fir  ft  to  the 
virgin  molh'r,  that^  Jhe  would 
favor  their  undertakings.  Nor*) 
a  whole  year  was  gone,  zohilfl 
he  pretending  now  Mzj,  then 
caufitnU 


ALCUMISTICA. 


caufante  nunc  hoc.nunc 
7 Hue/,  luditur  opera,  et 
impenfa  j^nV.  Interim 
extitit  quidara  ridiculus 
cafus. 

A,,  Quifnam  ? 

B.  Alcumifta  habuit 
furtivam.  confuetudinem 
cum  uxore  ^  cujufdam 
aulici  J  marit\is,conccp- 
ta  fufpicione,  capitob- 
fervare  hominem.  Tan- 
dem cum  nunciatum  ef- 
fect ?7/2,facrificum  "ejfe  in 
cubiculo,  rediit  domum 
prater  expe&ationem, 
^//fl/oftium. 

A.  Qui d f "aclur us  ho- 
mini  ? 

B.Ouid  !  nihil  fuave, 
aut  occifurus  erat  aut 
exfecuuus.  Ubi  maritus 
in/tans  minitareiury£d- 
fraclurum  oflium  vi  ni 
uxor  aperiret,  trepida- 
turn  eft  magnopere,  et 
aliquod  prasfentaneum 
con/ilium  circumfpici- 
tur.  Nee  erat  a/tud, 
quam  quod  res  ipfa  da- 
bat.  Abjecit  tunicam, 
ac  dejecit/g/J  neifenef- 
tram  angujiam,  nonjine 
pericuio,  nee  fine  vul- 
nere,  acfugit.  Scis  ta- 
les fabutesjpargi  iilico; 
itaque  permanavit  et  ad 
Balbinum  ;  at  que.  arti- 
fex  diuinaret  id  lore. 


that,  his  labor  is  loft,  and  the 
the  expenie  thrown  away.  In 
the  mean  time there  happened  a 
certain  comical  adventure. 

What  ? 

The  alcumift  had  a  private 
commerce  with  the  wife  of  a  cer- 
tain courtier  ;  the  hufband  iay 
ing  conceived  a  fufpicion,  began 
to  watch  M^  fellow.  At  la  ft 
&r&^8  it  was  told  him,  that  the 
prieft  z*wj  in  the  bedchamber, 
he  returned  home  contrary  to 
their  expectations,  knocksat  the 
door. 

What  &>£j  he  for  doing  with 
the  fellow  : 

What!  nothingp\eafont,either 
he  would  have  killed  him,  or 
have  gelded  him.  When  the 
hufband  being  very  earnejl, 
threatened  that  he  would  break 
the  door  by  force^  unlefs  the 
wife  opened  it,  they  trembled 
mightily, t  and  fome  prefent  con- 
trivance is  confidered  of.  Nor 
was  there  any  other  than  what 
the  thing  it/elf  offered.  He 
Jlriptoffb.is  waiftcoat,<2/2tff threw 
hvmfelj  through  a  narrow  win- 
dow,  nor  without  danger,  -nor 
without  a  wound,  and  /led,  you 
know that fuch  ftories  are J'p read 
prefently  ;  therefore  it  came 
alfo  to  Balbinus,  and  the  artift 
had ' gu>ffed  that  it  would  be. 

A.  Hcic 


ALCUMISTICA. 


69 


A.  Heic  itaque  tene- 
•  tur  medzus* 

B.  Imo    elapfus  eft 
hinc  felecius  quam  e  cu- 

fJ?iculo.      Audi  tecknam 

i  hominis.      Balbinus  ni- 

,  hilexpofl.ulabat,/;^nu- 

,  bilo  vultu   iD.di.cabaty£ 

,  non  ignorare  £w<?^  fere- 

,  batur  vulgo.    Ille  «#i/£- 

,  r#f  Balbinum  ejfe  pium 

virum,  pene  dix-eriui/i- 

-  ptrjlitioju  mm   n  on  n  u  1  • 

iis  ;  et  qmfunt  taies^- 

4K&    condonantjupplici 

in  peccato    fi&z#i     27/j 

magr.o.      /tag;   injicit 

mentionem    ^  fuccejfu 

negotii  data  opera,  que- 

ritans  nonJuccpderet  ut 

Joleret,  aut  <7  //W  ;  adde- 

bat^i?  vehementer  wtra- 

n  quid  <^7  cauia.     Ibi 

Balbinus  commotus  per 

occafionem,  qui  videba- 

tur  alioqui  deftinaffey?- 

lentium,     et    £/-#/     qui 

commoveretur       facile. 

Noneftobfcurumjnquit 

quod  tfi/zW,  peccata  0<£- 

/aw/  quo. minus  fucce- 

dat,  ^zW  convenit  /r<zc- 

Am  pure  a  puns.      Ad 

hanc.vocem  artifrxpro- 

,cubuit  ingawa,  fubin- 

<le  tundens  pectus,  Lack- 

<rym&bili  vultu  <ac  voce 

,i«jquit,    dwfti    verifli- 

ynum, Balbuie  ;  peccata, 


Here  therefore  he  is  held  ^y 
/fe  middle. 

,  Nay,  he  flipped  hence  zwe 
luckily  than  out  oj  the  bedcham* 

1  A?r.  Hear  M<?  *nc/£  ot  the  fel- 
low. Balbinus  did  not  expof- 
tuiate  at  all,  £&/  by  his  cloudy 
countenance fhewed  *Aa*  /*<f  wfcs 

;  not  ignorant  of  a'to  was  re- 
ported commonly.  He  A&ra/ 
Balbinus  aw  J  a  pious  man,  I 
may  a]  mo  ft  fay  fuperflitious  in 
fome  things,  aW  they  who  are 
fuch,  ^tf/?/y  forgive  one  that  begs 
pardon  in  a  -fault ,never /a  great. 
Wherefore  he  makes  mention  5/* 
the  fuccefs  of  the  bufmefs,  ff# 
purpoje  j  complaining  Mtf/  2/ 
did  notfucceed  as  2/  ^/S^  or  he 
wiJJied  :  He  added  that  he  very 
much  wondered  what  aaatf  the 
reafon.  There  Balbinus  being, 
moved  upon  the  occafion,  a»/j0 
feemed  etkerzujje  to  have  in- 
tendeds/era^, and  he  zoas  one 
who  a/£j  mov'd  eafi'ly.  It  is 
not  obfcure,  quoth  he,  what 
hinders,  fins  hinder  it  from  fuc- 
ceeding,  which  it  is  htJJwuldbe 
handled  purely  by  the  pure.  At 

'this  faying  t/ie  .  arti/i  ic.U  upon 
hs  knees,  now  and  then  fruiting 
his  breail  with  a  lamentable 
countenance  and  voice,  fays,  v## 
have  fuel  very  true,  Balbinus, 
fins,  //a)'?  hinder,  £2//  rny/zW, 
not  yours  :  For  IJliallnot  be  a- 

Jliamed  to %confefs  ?;ry  filthmefs 
to  you,  as  £0  #  #20//   ^0/y  prieu\ 

The.xueaknefs    ot   the  fldh  taj 
peccata, 


70 


ALCUMISTICA. 


peccata,  n6n  tua  :  nam 
non  pudebit  me  confiteri 
me  am  turpitudinem  a- 
pud  te,  velut  apud  fane 
tiffimura  '  facerdotej-p. 
Infirmitas  carnis  vfee- 
rat  me._  Satanas  per- 
traxerat   me  in  Juos    la- 

»  queos,  et  O  me  rnife- 
rura  !  e  fkcrijico   factus 

.  fum  adulter.  Tarn  en 
hoc  munus,  quod  mifi- 

■  H3us  vvrgrni  main  non 
periit  omnino.  Perie- 
rain  certo  exitio,  ni  ilia 
fuccurriffet.  Jam  ma- 
ritus  affringebat  fores, 
fene/lra  erat  arclior 
qriam  w*  pofrem  e/tf^z  ; 
in  taw  prefentaneo  pe- 
nculo,  venit  in  mentem 

J  a  n  cl  i  (Jim  a  v  i  r  g  i  n  i  s  ; 
proadi  in  genua  obtef 
talus  fum,  n  munus  fu- 
i  11 e  g ra tum,  i>!  0/; 2  /a /tf - 
r^/"r.  Nee  mora,  re- 
peto  feneftram,  (nam 
ire  nccefitas  urgebp.r)  et 
reperi  amp  lam  fatis  ad 
ejfugium. 

A.  Credidit  Balbinus 
iftis  ? 

B.  Credidit !  imo  ig- 
ndvit,  Hiam,  et  adiron> 
uit  religiofe,  nt  pr<?bz- 
ret  fe  ingratum  beatiffi- 
rrt  as  p?  rg  2  #  ? • .  Ku  r  fu  s 
p  cuma  numerata  eft 
danti  fidem  ft  rem  pure 
poilhac. 


conquered  me.  &7ta>2  had 
drawn  me  into  /221  Inares,  and 
O  woe's  me  !  of  a  prie/l,  I  am 
become  a  cuckoldma.ker.  Yet 
/Azj  prefent,  which  we  fent  /f<? 
the  virgin  mother  was  not  loji 
altogether.  I  had  perifhed  by 
certain  de/lrudion,  unlefs  JJie 
had  fuccored  me.  Now  the 
hufband  was  breaking  the  door; 
the  window  was  jlraighter  than 
//W  I  couM  get  out.  In  fo  im- 
minent a  danger,  I  bethought 
me  of  the  mo Jl  holy  virgin  ;  / 
Jfc//tipdnmy  knees,  /  be  fought 
her,  ii  the  "prefent  was  accepta- 
ble, that  j$e  would  help  me. 
Without  delay,  /  go  again  to 
the  window,  (for  fo  necefjrty 
obliged  me)  and  I  found  it 
large  enoughjor  an  efcape. 


Did  Balbinus  believe  thofe 
things  ? 

Believe!  nay,  he  forgave  him 
too^nAadvif  d  him  religioufly, 
that  heJJwuld  notjfrw  himfelf 
ungrateful  to  the  moil  bleffed 
virgin."  Again  mowy  was  paid 
him,  giving  his  promife  that  he 
would  manage  this  hdly  affair 
purely  for  the  future.     y 

A.  Qm* 


ALCUMISTICA. 


71 


A.  Quis  Jinis    tan- 

dem  ? 

B,Fabula  ejl  perlon- 
ga  ;  fed  ego  abfolvam^ 
paucis.  Cum  lufifTet 
i  hominem  diu  ejufmodi 
commenti,  et  extorfjfet 
non  mediocrem  vim 
pecuniae  ab  eo,  tandem 
venit  qui  noverat  ne- 
bulonem  a  puero.  Is 
Jacile  divinans  ilium  a- 
gere  idem  apud  Balbi- 
num,  quod  cgerat  nuf- 
quam  non,  aggrtditur 
eum  clam  ;  exponhqua-  * 
lem  artificem  j  over  at 
fuae  domi ;  monet  ut 
ablegeret/^7^z^;«quam 
primum,  ni  mallet  ip- 
fum  fugere  aliquando 
compilatis  fcriniis. 

A.  Quid  Balbinus 
hie  ?  videlicet \  curavit 
hominum  conjic-iendum 
in  carcerem* 

B.lncarcere?n  !  imo, 
ninneravit  viaticum, 
objecrans  per  omnia  fa- 
era,  ne  ejfuiiret  quod 
accidijjet  ;  Et  Japuit 
mea Jkntentia  quidem, 
ywi  maluerit  hoc 
}^m  effe/abula  con- 
diviorum,  <?£  fori  deinde 
venire     in     periculum 


What  was  the  up/Jiotzt  l'aft? 

The  flory  is  very  long,  £w/ 
IJiniJJi.  it  in  a  few^words.  .4/1 
ter  he  had  played  upon  the 
man  a  long  time  withfuch  in- 
ventions, and  had  got  no  fmall 
quantity  of  money  ^taw  Az?/?, 
at  length  z7z#r£  came  one  who 
y£tf<^  known  the  knavtjrom  a 
child.  He  £#/57y  gueding  //2<z£ 
he  was  doing  the  fame  thing 
with- Balbinus,  which  he  hud 
been  doing  every  where  elfe, 
goes  to  him  privately,  tells  him 
what  an  artift  ^£  maintained  in 
his  houfe  ;  he  advifes  him  to 
difmifs  the  man  as  foon  as  may 
be,  uniefs  he  had  rather  have 
him  run  away  fome  time  after 
he  had  robbed  his  chefts. 

What  did  Balbinus  here  ? 
/0  o;z£,  he  took  care  the  fellow 
was  thrown  zfl/0  the  gaol. 

j. 
Into  the  gaol!  Nay,  he  paid 
him  money  for  his  journey, ta- 
jeechinghim  by  all  that  was  fa- 
cred,  //zaz*  he  would  not  blabt 
what  had  happened  ;  and  ^£ 
was  zvi/e  in  my  opinion  truly, 
who  chofe  this  rather  than  be 
M*  ^tfry  of  feafts,  and 
and  the  market,  and  then 
come  2/z  danger  of  confifca- 
confifeationis, 


72 


ALCUMISTTCA. 


confifcationis.  Nam 
trat  nihil   periculi  imr 

fo/l 'oris ,tenebat  iantum 
artis,  quantum  quivis 
afinuSt  et  xmpoflera  in 
hoc  genere  ejl  favora» 
bilis.  Q}*od  fi  inten- 
taffet  crimen  furti,'  und** 
tio  reddebat  turn,  tutum 
a  fufpendio  ;  neque 
quifquam  alat  In  bens 
lalem  in  carcere  gratis. 

A.  Miferefceret  me 
Balbini,  nifi  ipfe  gau^ 
deret  deludi. 

B.  Nunc  properan- 
dum  eft,  in  aulam  ;  ali" 
as  referam  multo  itul- 
MorTidiam  his. 

A.  Cum  vacabis>  et 
audiam  lubens,  e*  pen- 
fabo  fabula* 


jt\on,  for  here  bias  no  danger 
of  the  cheats  he  underflood  as 
much  of  the  art  as  any  tf/5yand 
cheating  in  this  kind  Hri  favor- 
ed. But  if  he.  had  laid  againft 
him  the  crime  of  felony,  Azj 
un&ion   rendered  hifn    fecure 

from  hanging  /  nor  would  any 
one  maintain  willingly  fuck  a 

fellow  in  the  gaol  for  nothing." 


1  fhduld  pity  Bafbinui,   un* 
lefs  /fo  loved  ta  be  deluded. 

Now  /  mujl  haflen  to  court; 
fome  other  time  1  will  tell  you 
much  more  foolifh  things  even 
than  thefe. 

When  jytfw  Jhall  be  at  leifure9 
I  both fliall  hear  you  gladly 
and  requite Jiory  with  ftory. 


hippoplanus: 


^ 


H1PP0PLANUS. 


A.TMMORTALEM 


1  Deu 


m ! 


qu 


am  tor- 


ve  intuetur  noJierPhtt- 
drus,  eifabindejujpicit 
in  caelum  !  adoriar. 
Quid  novce  rei  accidit, 
Phaedre  ? 

B.  Quamobrem  in- 
terrogas  i{\uc,.dule  ? 

A.  Quoniam  vicferis 
nAhiJaffus.  CatoeP/ice- 
dro  ;  eft  tanta  fe Veri- 
tas in  vultu. 

B.  Non  mirum,  ami- 
ce, conjejfusjum  inoay 
me  a  peccata. 

A.  Phy  !  jam  dell  no 
mirari,  fed  age  mini 
£#/?£  yfcfc,  ccnieilus  es 
omnia  ? 

B.  Omnia  quidem 
-quae  veniebant  in  men- 
tern,  &/nc2  duntaxat  *#- 
cepto. 

A. Cur  reticuijli  hoc 
.unum  ? 

B.  Quiznondum.  po- 
iuit  difplicere  ?/n/n. 
G 


IMMORTAL  G<?<f  /  how 
gravely  looks  our  Phcedrus, 
and  now  and  then  looks  up  to 
heaven  I  i"  will  accojl  him. 
What  new  thing  ^tfi  happened, 
Ptaedrus  ? 

Why  do  you  ajli  thn%.Aulus? 

BecauTef  ya&Jetm  to  me  /o 

have  become  a  Cato  of  a  Pluz- 
drus  ;  there  is^  much  feveri* 
ty  in  your  court*  trance. 

No   wonder,    friend,  /  have 
confJJed\u{i  now  my  fins. 

Pugh  !  how  I  give  over  won~ 

de ring, but  co?ne  tell  me  in  good 

JaifJi,  have  you  cenfeffed  a//  ? 

All  indeed  which  came    bit* 
my  mind,  one  only  excepted. 


Why  fl7<2  j'0&  conceal  tLk 
o  ??€  ? 

Becaufe  zV  c<?#/J  not  yet  dRf~ 
pleafe  »*<, 

A.  Ope 


74 


HIPPOPLANUS. 


A.Oportet  effe  fuave 
ptccatum. 

B.  Nefcio  an  Rtpec- 
catum,  fed^vacas,  au- 
dits. 

A.  A^udiam  equidem 
iubens. 

B.  Scis  quanta  im- 
poftura  /?/  apud  noftros 
in  his  qui  vtndunt  aut 
locant  equos. 

A.  Scio  j^/wi"  quam 
vcllem,  delufus  non  fe- 
mel  ab  Us. 

.  B.Iter  nupers  incidit 
?;2  z/z?',  cum  prolix  urn  fa- 
tis,  ^&w  e^'^7»  accele- 
randum.  Adeo  quen- 
dam  ex  illis,  quern  dix- 
iffes  minim e  malum  fe- 
rns generis,  et  nonmhil 
amiciiiae  etiam  mterce- 
debat  mihi  cum  ho  mi  tie. 
Narr.o  mihi  effe  feriam 
rem,  opus  Jje  prseftre- 
nuo  cquo  ;  fi  unquam 
praebuiffet  ]e  bonum 
virum  mihi,  nunt  prae- 
itaret.  Ilk  poilicetur 
ft  afturum  mtcum  fie, 
ut  age  ret  cum  fuo  cka- 
rjf-no  fratre. 

B.  Fortafns.  impofi- 
iurus  etfratri. 

B.  Inducit  infabw 
lu?n,  jubet  utelegam  ex 


It  mufl  be  a  iwzztjin. 

I  know  not  whether  it  be  a 
yfo,  but  if  you  are    at   leifure, 

youJJiall  hear. 

1  will  hear  it  indeed  willing- 

iy-  § 

You  know  what  abundance 
of  cheating  there  is  with  our 
countrymen  among  thofe  who 

Jell  or  let- out  horfes. 

I  know  more  than  /  would, 
having  been  cheated  not  once 
only  by  them. 

A  journey  lately  happened 
to  me  both  long  enough  andal- 

Jo  to  be  haftcned.  I  go  to  one 
oj  them,  whom  you  would  have 

Jaid  to  be  the  lead  bad  of  triat 

fort,  and  Jomething  of  friend- 
fhip  too  there  was  betwixt  me 
and  the  man.  I  tell  him  / 
have  fome  weighty  bufinej's, 
had  need  of  a  very  ilout  horje  / 
if  dz/er  he  had  flhewn  hunjelj ra 
good  man  to  me  7/W  now  he 
would  do  it.  He  promifes  me 
that  he  would  deal  with  me  fo, 
as  he  would  deal  with  his  meji 
d.'ar  brother. 


Perhaps  he  zvould  have  im~ 
pofdiili  twite  upon  his  brother. 

He  leads  me  into  the  Jlable9 

bids  me  choofe    outoi  all  the 

omnibus 


HlPPOPLANUS. 


omnibus  equis  quem- 
cumq  ;  vellan.  Tan- 
dem unusarridebatplus 
c ceteris,  llle  probat 
meum  judicium,  dege- 
ranseum  equum  exper* 
titum  eRe  frequenter  a 
inultis  ;fe  maluifle/?r- 
vare  eumfingulari  am- 
ico,  quam  addicere  \g- 
notis.  Coiwentum  eft 
de pretio,  pecunia  nu- 
meratur  praefens.  Con- 
fcendo.  ilquus  gtfiit- 
bat  mira  alacritate  in 
egreffu  ;  dixffes  efle 
feroculu?nimm  erat  ob- 
efulus,  et  pulchellus. 
Ubi  equitafTem  jam  fef- 
■quihoram,  fenji  plane 
I  of}  urn,  nee  poffe  im~ 
pelli  quidem  calcanbus. 
Audierarn  tales  ali  ab 
i  His  ad  i  m  p  o  ft  u  rain , 
quos  judicares  irf/gnes 
e  fpecie,  cater  urn  im- 
patientiffirnos  laboris. 
Ego  continuo  mecum, 
ca-ptus  fum  ;  age  tefe- 
rar/i  par  pari,  ubi  redi- 
ero  domum. 

B.  Quod  confilii  ca- 
piebas  hac,  eques  abf- 
que equo  ? 

A.  Id  quod  res  dab  at. 
Deflexi.  in    proximum 


horfe.?  whichsoever  /  would. 
At  length  one  pleafed  me  more 
than  the  reft.  He  approves 
of  my  judgment ,  J 'wear: ng  that 
that  horfe  had  been  defired 
frequently  by  many  ;  that  he 
chofe  rather  to  keep  him  for  a 
particular  friend,  than  part 
with  him  to  jlr  angers.  We 
agreed  about  the,  price,  the 
money  is  paid  down  prefently. 
/  mount.  The  horfe  pranced 
with  wonderful  alacrity  in  let- 
ting out  ;  you  would  have  [aid 
that  he  was  meitkfome,  for  he 
was  pretty  fat  and  handfome. 
When  I  had  rid  now  an  hour 
and  a  half,  /  perceived  him 
quite  tiftdi  and  that  he  could  (. . 
not  be  got  on  tiuly  with  the'* % 
fpurs.  1  had  heard  that fuch 
were  kept  by  them  for  cheat- 
ing, which  you  would  judge 
fine  ones  by  their  appearance, 
but  very  unable  to  bear  labor, 
I  laid  preftntly  with  myfelf,  / 
am  catch ed  ;  well  /  zoill  re- 
turn like  for  'like,  when  /  re» 
turn  home. 


What  courfe  did  yon  take 
here,  a  horiernan  without  a 
horfe? 

That  &;/2?V/i  the  thing  offer» 

ed>    1  turned  oflf  into   the  next 

vicuia  ; 


H1PPOPLANU3. 


vie  urn    ;    iilic  depofui 

equum  apad  quendam 
notum  mihi,  et  conduxi 
a  Itt  rum  ;  pro  feci  u  s  f u  m 
quo  deiliaarem,  rever- 
jus  fnn  reddo  condiuli- 
tium  equum  ;  repcrio 
w.n\i\x\fo phi  ft  ampler  at  ^ 
cbefum  .  et  pukhre  pc- 
quiet  urn,  vcflus  eo,  re- 
de o  adimpoftorcm,r0g"tf 
vx  alert t  aliquot  dies  in 
fuo  ii-dbulot  donee  repe- 
tiero.  percunclatur 
quam  commode  geiicnt 
mt.  Ego  dejero  per 
omnia  iacra,  me  nun- 
quam  confcendille  ter- 
gum  felicioris  cqui  in 
'  vha,ro!aj/epoumqua)?i 
ambuluiie,  nee  Jenfijfe 
laflit.udinem  tarn  longo 
itinere,  nee  factum  ^z/tf, 
xnacriorera  oh  laborem. 
Cum  perfuaferam  illi 
kttceffc  vera,  cogitabat 
iacitus  fecum  ilium  e* 
qurnn  efte  alium,  quam 
Iiaftenus  fufpicalus  ej- 
fiet.  Itaque  priufquam 
abirem,  rogabat  rnim 
na hi  equus  eflet  vena- 
lis;  piimo  negabam, 
quod  fi  iter  incident 
denuo,  nonforet  facile 
mnjcifci  fitnilem  ;  at- 
tamen  nihil  eiTe  tarn 
eharura  mxhi%  quod  no  a 


town  :  There  I  fet  up  my 
horfe  with  one  //W  was  known 
to  me,  <2tf  J  hired  another  ;  I 
went  whither  I  had  defigned, 
returned^tiioxc  mykiredhoik ; 
1  find  my  cheat,  as  ^e  &'tf  j  fat 
##  J  finely  rejled  /.  riding  upon 
him,  /  return  to  the  rogue  :  / 
beg  of  him  that  he  would  keep 
him  fome  days  in  his  ft  able, 
/2//  I  come  for  him  again.  Ht 
aflis  me  how  well  he  carried 
me.  If  tear  by  #//  that s  fa- 
cred,  Mfi/  /  never  got  upon//z£ 
£#£/£  of  a  better  horfe  in  my 
life  ;  that  he  flew  rather  than 
paced,  and  was  not  fenfble  of 
wearinefs  in  fo  I mg  a  journey, 
nor  made  a  hair  the  leaner  for 
his  labor.  When  /  had  ptr- 
fuaded  him  that  theje  things 
were  truer  he  thought  filtntiy 
with  himfelf,  that  the  horfe  was 
another  fort  of  one,  than  hith- 
erto he  had  fuf peeled  him. 
Therefore  before  I  went  away, 
he  ajked  me  if  my  horfe  was  t9 
be  fold :  At  fir  It  I  [aid  no,  be- 
catafe  if  a  journey  fliould  fall 
out  again,  it  would  not  be  eafy 
to  get  the  like  ;  but  that  noth- 
ing was  fo  dear  to  me9 
which  was  not  to  be  fold 
for  a  leirge  price  ;  although 
any  one  [hould  defire  to  buy 
myftf  lay  U 

eft 


HIPPOPLANUS.  ■* 


77 


effet  venal e  p retro  lar- 
go •  etiamfi  quis  cupe- 
ret  emptum  map/urn, 
inquam, 

A.  Nee  hi  agebas 
Cretenfem pule hre  cum 
Cretenfi. 

B.Quid  multis  ?  Non 
dimittit  me,  donee  in- 
•dicarem,  Indicavi  non 
paulo  pkmsiyjwrai  erne- 
ram.  DigreJJus  ab  nom- 
ine, 7no x  iuborno  qui 
age  re  t  pa  rtem  h  u  j  u  sfa  - 
bulce  mihi,  pule  hre  in- 
flruflum  £/  edocium. 
/ringreffus  domum  in- 
rlamat  locatorem,  ait 
fibi  opus  effe  injigni  e~ 
quo  et  egregie  patienti 
labon s.  Alter  0/ikrc- 
B#l  m-uitos,  et  prasdicat 
pejjimum  quemque maxi- 
me;  non  laudat  ilium 
Jolum,  quern  vendiderat 
mihi,  quoniam  exifti- 
mabat  r/^r*  talem,  £7#<2- 
lern  prsedicaveram.  At 
alter  rJ/zVi  rogat  numct 
ille  ^/  venalis.  Lo- 
cator primum  obticef- 
ceret  atque  prozdicaret 
alios  ambitioje.  Cum 
*/?<?,  ceteris  probatis 
utcunque,  fhnper  age- 
ret  de  illo  uno,  tandem 
locator  apudje^  judici- 
G  2 


Truly  you  acled  the  Cretian 
finely  with  ^£  Cretian. 

What  needs  many  words  ? 
He  does  not  difinifs  me  till  1  fet 
my  price.  /  ft t  him  at  not  a 
little  more  than  I  had  bought 
him  for.  Being  gone  from  the 
man,  />y  aW  />j/  I  fuborn  one, 
who  fhould  act  a  part  of  this 
■/>/#y  for  me,  well  in  Unified 
and  taught.  He  entered  the. 
houfe,  calls  upon  the  jockey,  he 
fays  that  he  had  need  of  a  very 
good  horfe^  and  excellently  ca- 
pable of  enduring  labor.  The 
other  Jliezvs  him  many,  and 
commends  every  iheworji  hdrje 
m.oft.  He  does  not  commend 
him  alone,  which  he  had  fold 
to  me,  becaufe  he  thought  him 
truly  fuch,  as  I  had  commend- 
ed him  for.  But  the  other 
prefe ntly  afks  whether  he  too 
was  to  befold.  The  jockey  at 
fir  ft  was  f lent,  and  commended 
others  mightily.  When  he% 
the  reft  being  approved  of  \\x 
fome  meafure,  always  treated 
about  that  alone  ;  at  lafl  the 
jockey  fays  to  hmff  my 
judgment  of  (hat  horfc  plainly 

tun 


HIPPOPLANUS. 


urn  meum  de  ilio  equo 
plane  fjeilit  me.  Si- 
quidem  hie  peregrinus 
fatim  agnovit  kunc  in- 
ter omnes.  Cum  Hit. 
k)  ft  a  ret,  tandem,  in  quit, 
hie  eft  ven alis,  kdfor- 
tajft  deterreberis  p  rctt d. 
Pretium,  inquit  ille, 
ncn  eft  magnum,  y?  dig- 
nitas  rei  refpondeat. 
Indica.  Indicavit  all- 
quanta  pluris,  quam  in- 
dicaram  xpfi,  cap  tans  et 
hoc  lucrum.  Tandem 
convenit  de  pretio  ;  Ta- 
lis magna  arrha  datur, 
ne?npe  regalis  aureus, ne 
qua  fufpicio  Jimulata 
emptionis  incident. 
Emptor  jubet  pabulum 
dan  cquo.  Ait  fe  redi- 
turum  mox  et  abdu&u- 
rum.  ZWetiam  drach- 
mam  flabulario.  Ego , 
iimul  atque  cognovi 
paclionem  ejfe  firmam 
Jic  ut  nonpojfet  recindi, 
cedo  rurfus  ad  locaio- 
7c?n  armatus  ocreis  et 
caicanbus.  Clamo  an- 
helus,  ille  adefl,  rogat 
quid  velim.  Me  us  e- 
*quus  adornetur,  illico, 
inquam  nam  p  r  o ft  a  fee  n- 
dum  eftt  ve  ftigio  <?/>max- 
\mtftriam  rem.  /Uqui 
vaQ&o%inquit}  mandabas 


deceived  me  :  Since  this  ft  ran- 
ger immediately  knew  him  a- 
mong  them  all.  When  he  urg- 
ed him,  at  lafl,  fays  he,  he\% 
to  be  fold,  but  perhaps  you 
will  be  frighted  with  theprice. 
1  he  price,  fays  he,  is  not 
great,  if  the  worth  of '  the  thing 
anfwer.  Set  your  price.  He 
fet  him  at  fomething  more  than 
I  had  fet  him  at  to  him,  catch- 
ing alfo  at  this  gain.  At  length 
they  agreed  about  the  price  ; 
a  good  large  earnef  penny  is 
given,  to  wit,  a  royal  crown, 
left  any  fufpicion  of  a  counter- 
jeit  purchafe  fiould  happen. 
The  buyer  orders  hay  to  be 
given  to  the  horfe.  He  fays, 
that  he  will  return  prcfently, 
and  take  him  away.  He  gives 
alio  a  fix  pence  to  the  hoftler, 
I,  as  foon  as  /  knew  the  bar- 
gain was  firm,/?  that  it  could 
not  be  broken,  returned  again 
/0  the  jockey,  drefled  in  my 
boots  and  [purs,  I  call  out  of 
breath,  he  comes,  afks  me  a/tatf 
I  would  have.  Let  my  horfe 
be  got  ready  prefently,^)-  /, 
for  /  m it ji  go  i id  m ed i at r  I  v upon 
a  very  /enou  r  affair.  But  juft 
now,  quo ik  he,  you  ordered 
i&rf  I  flbould  keep  v0«r  horfe 
/^;;z<?  days  :  True,  fay  I,  ^&^ 
bufinefs   is  fallen   in  my  way 

ut 


HIPPOPLANUS. 


79 


ut  aleram  tuum  equum 
aliquot  dies:  Vtr um Jin- 

quam/^negotium  ob- 
jeciuin  eft  prseter  expec- 
tationem, \dque  regium, 
qjaod  patitur  nuilam 
dilationem.  Hie  ille, 
Elites  ex  omnibus^uem 
voles  ;  non  potes  ha- 
bere tuum.  Rogo  quam- 
obrem  ?  Ouoniam,  in- 
quit,  vtnditus  eft.  Ibi 
Jimulala  magna  pertur- 
batione,  inquam  Superi 
prohibeant  quod  dicisl 
Hoc  itinere  obje£>o, 
non  vender  em  eum  e- 
quum,  etiamfi  quis  nu- 
xuerat  quadruplum.  ln- 
cipio  rixam%  clamo  we 
perditura.  Tandem  et 
illc  incaluit.  Quid 
opus,  inquit,  jurgiis  ? 
In  die  a/It  equum,  ego 
vendidi;  fi  numeroprc- 
tium,  Adtaf  nihil  quod 
cgas  mecum.  Sunt 
leges  in  hac  urbe  :  non 
potts  compellere  me  ad 
exhibendum  equum. 
Cum  clamaflem  flftii, 
aut  eitJii (met equum faut 
torem  ;  tan  dun  ira- 
tu3  numeral  firepufli. 
Emeram  quindecim.  au- 
i    vi- 


befides  my  expeclah on ,  and  that 
//£.£  King's,  which  admits  no 
delay.  Here  he  /aid,  you  may 
choofe  (7i//  0/  ^  which ji?^ 
a?///,  you  cannot  ^ai/*  your 
own  :  I  afk,  what  for  ?  Be- 
cauje,  fays  he,  he  is fold.  There 
pretending  a  great  diflurbancc, 
I  fay,  God  forbid,  whatjy^w 
ya>i.  This70#r ney  being  fallen 
out,  /  would  not  fell  that  horfe, 
although  any  one  would  pay 
me  four  times  the  worth.  I 
begin  a  folding,  I  cry  out 
thai  I  am  undone.  At  length 
he  too  grew  hot.  What  need, 
quoth  he,  of  all  this  bawling  : 
you  fet  a  price  on  your  horfe, 
I  have  fold  him,  it  I  pay  you 
your  price,  you  have  nothing 
that  you  can  do  with  me. 
There  are  laws  in  this  city  ; 
You  cannot  compel  me  to  pro- 
duce tht  horfe.  After  1  had 
bawled  a  long  time,  either  that 
he fliould  produce  the  horfe,  or 
the  buyer,  he  pays  me  my 
price.  X  had  bought  him  for 
fifteen  crowns.  I  had  v  lued 
him  at  twenty  fix,  he  had  valu- 
ed him  at  thirty  two.  He 
thought  to  him/elf  it  is  better 
to  make  this  advantage,  than  to 
return  the  horfe.  1  go  away 
like  one  grieved,  and  fcarce 
appeafed  with  the  money  given 
gmti 


8e 


HIPPOFLANUS. 


jjinti  fex,  ilk  aeftima- 
*at  tnginta  duo  bus. 
Cogitabat  apud  fe  ; 
prieftat  facer e  hoc  lucri, 
quam  redrlere  equum. 
'Abeofmilis  dolenti,£C 
xixplacatus  pecuniaaftf- 
ta.  Ille  rogat  ut  £0/22 
confulam,  fe  penfatu- 
rum  hoc  incommodi  fit 
tt/n'j  rebus.  Sic  2?w- 
pofitum  ejl  impoilofi. 
Ha  bet  equum  nullius 
pretii.  ExpeQat  ut 
qui  6 edit arrh a ffi,venidLt 
numer&tum  pecuniam  ; 
at  nemo  venit  nee  &#- 
quam  venturus  eft. 

A.  Interim  nunquam 
cxpojlulavit  tecum  ? 

B.  Qua  fronte  aut 
quo  jure  facer et  id  ? 
Convenit  quidem  Jemel 
at  que  iter  urn.  Con- 
queftuseft  de  fide  emp- 
tor is.  Verum  ego  ex- 
poftulavi  w/jVtf  cum  no- 
mine dicens  ilium  dfrg*- 
722/7/2  eo  inalo  qui  fpoli- 
avit  /72 ^  tali  equo  pra- 
propera  venditioni 
Hoc  f/?  crimen  ta7/z  &?- 
ne  collocatum  mcafen- 
ttntiay  ut  non  pqjjim 
inducere  animum  con- 
fiteri. 


772^.  Hi?  ^i-  that  'I  would  take 
in  good  part,  that  he  would 
make  amends  for  this  inconve- 
nience in  other  things.  So  I 
cheated  the  cheater.  He  has 
a  horfe  of  no  value.  He  ex- 
petls  that  he  who  gave  the  ear- 
nejt  penny,  may  come  to  pay 
his  money  ;  but  nobody  comes, 
nor  ever  will  come. 


In  the  mean  time  did  he 
never  expoflulate  with  you'? 

With  what  front  or  with 
what  right  could  he  do  it  ?  He 
met  me  indeed  once  and  again. 
He  complained  of  the  honejly 
of  the  buyer.  But  I  expostu- 
lated of  my  own  accord  with 
the  man, faying  that  he  was 
worthy  of  that  misfortune,  who 
had  robbed  me  of  inch  ahofe, 
by  too  hafty  felling  of  him. 
This  z'jacrime/tf  o#//  placed, 
272  ?72>  opinion,  that  /  cannot 
bring  7/2^  mzW  to  confefs  it. 


A.  Ego 


C0NV1V1UM  FABULOSUM. 


A. Ego  pofcerern^a- 
tuam  mihi,  ft  defignaf- 
fem  aliquid  tale. 

B.  Nefcio  an  loque- 
ris  tx  ammo  :  tamen 
addis  animum  mihi, 
quo  magis  Wbcdtjactre 
jucum  talibus. 


I  fhould  demand  a  Jlatue 
for  myfelf,  if  I  had  contrived 
any  fuch  thing. 

I  know  not  whether  you 
[peakjrom  your  heart:  Yet 
you  give  encouragement  to  me, 
that  I  have  the  more  mind  to 
put  thetrick  upon  fuch  fellows. 


CONVWiUM  F4BULCSUM, 


Poly  my  thus,  Gelafinus,  Eufcrapelus,  Aftacus, 
Phylythlus,  Phitogelos,  Eugloitus,  Lerocha- 
res,  Adolefchcs. 


A.T  TT  nendecet  bene 
w  inftitutam  civi- 
talem  define  legibus 
ac  principe,  ita  nee  o~ 
port't  convivium. 

Ge.  I  flue  vero  pep- 
placet,  ut  unus  refpon- 
deam  nomine  totius 
populi. 

Po.  Heus  puer,  adfer 
hue  talos,  ho  rum  J  af- 
freights regn  u  m  decerne- 
tur  cukunque  Jupiter 


AS  */  aWj  720/  become  a  well 
ordered  /fate  to  be  with- 
out laws  A/?ia  Prince,  fo  nei- 
ther a&j  z7  become  a  feait  to  be. 

That  indeed  pleafes  us  very 
well,  that  1  alone  ^z^v  anfzver 
in  the  name  of  the  whole  peo- 
ple. 

Soho,  />tf>',  bring  hither  the 
dice,  Ay  ^/zecr  1/0  tej  the  king- 
dom fnall  be  difpofed  of  to 
whomfoever  Jupiter  lhafi  fa- 
fa  ver  it, 


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CONV1VIUM  FABULOSUM. 


faverit.  Euge  !  Jupi- 
ter favit  Jlutrapelo. 
-Sortes  non  fuere  cara:. 
Magis  idoneus non  po- 
terat eUg\,etiam/i  punc- 
ta  colletlafuiffent  viri- 
tim  per  fingulas  tubus. 
Vulgojugatur  prover- 
biurn,  non  tam  vanum 
quoin  parum  Latinum, 
novus  rtfa  novus  kx. 
„  £u.  Quod  fit  felix 
fauflumque  huic  con- 
vicio.  Primum  edico, 
ne  quis  prefer et  heic 
prater  ridicuias  fabu- 
las.  Cui  dceritf abula 
multator  drachma.  Ea 
petunia  infumitor  in 
vinum.  At  que  extem- 
pore confida  habtntur 
in  legitimis  fabulis,/#0- 
do  probabile  et  deco- 
rumfervetur.  Si  nulli 
deer  it  tabula,  duo  pew 
dunto  pretiura  vim, 
quorum  alter  dixerit 
kpidifjimam  alter  fri- 
gidijjrmam  fubulam. 
Convivator  eflo  im mu- 
nis a  fumptu  vini  :  u- 
nus  juppeditato  fump- 
tu m  ciborum.  Si  quid 
controverfce  incident, 
Gelafinus  efto  arbiter  et 
judex   kujus    rd*      Si 


vor.  Well  done  !  Jupiter  has 
favored  Eutrapelus.  The  lotf 
were  not  blind.  A  more  fit 
man  could  not  have  been  c-hof- 
en,  though  the  votes  had  been 
taken  man  by  man  through  ev- 
ery tribe.  There  is  common- 
\ytoffed  about  a  proverb,  not 
fo  filly  ash  is  bad  Latin,  a  new 
king,  a  new  law. 

That  which  may  be  lucky 
and  fortunate  for  this  feaft. 
Firjt  I  proclaim  that  nobody 
produce  any  thing  here  befides 
comical  J 'lories.  He  that  wants 
aflory,  let  him  be  fined^Zv- 
pence.  Let  that  money  be 
fpent  in  wine.  And  let  things 
-invented  extempore  be  reckoned 
among  lauful  llories,  provided 
probability  and  decency  %  be 
preferved.  If  nonefiall  want 
a  ltory,  let  tkofe  two  pay  the 
charge  of  the  wine,  whereof 
the  one  mall  tell  the  prettuji, 
the  other  the  dullefi  ftory.  Let 
the  mafler  oj  the  fenfl  be  free 
from  the  charge  of  the  wine  : 
Let  him  alone  bear  the  charge 
of  the  vicluah.  If  .any  dtf- 
pute  happen,  let  Gelafinus  be 
the  decider  and  judge  oj  that 
affabr.  If  you  confirm  tkefe 
things^let  them  be  eftablifhed. 
He  ■t-fa&Y/ill  «tot  obey  the  la%, 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


83 


vos  fciveritis  haze  rata 
funto.  Qui  nolueritjfoz- 
rere  icgi,  abito  tamen 
Jic,  ut  Jit  jus  Jafque  re- 
dire  pojlridie  ad  com- 
potationem. 

G .  Volu mu s  legem 
la  tarn  a  rege  effe  rat  am 
noftris  Jujfragiis,  fed 
uncle  circulus  J'abula- 
rawproficifcetur? 

Eut.  Unde  ni  a  con- 
vi/atore  ? 

Af.  Jureconfulti  ne- 
gant  elTe  /^7»  quae 
nonjit  aequa. 

Eu.  Alfentior. 

At.  At  /«£  /^a"  eequat 
optxmam  fabulam  pejji- 
me. 

Eut.  Ubi  voluptas 
quaeritur,  ibi  premore- 
tuxnon  minus  laudis,  qui 
*//a7  peffime  quam  qui 
opti?ne,  velut  inter  can- 
tores  ??£?;2<?  voluptati 
eft,  7?//?  qui  cecinerit 
aut  injigniter  bene,  <??^ 
g regie  ?72rt/£.  Nonne 
plnres  rident  audita 
coccyge^  ^^^772  lufci- 
nia  ?  Heic  mediocritas 
non  habet  laudem. 

Af.  At  cur  ple&un- 
tur  qui  auierunt  lau- 
dem ? 


let  him  go>  yet  fo  that  it  may 
be  lawful  and  allowable  jo r 
him  to  return  the  day  after  to 
the  club. 


We  will  that  the  law  made 
by  our  king  be  confirmed  by 
our  votes  ;  but  whence  lhall 
the  circle    of  Jlories  proceed  ? 

From  whence  but  from  the 
entertainer  ? 

The  lawyers  deny  it  to  be  a 
law  which  is  notjuft. 

I  afient  to  it» 

But  your  law-  equals  ihe  l^ 
ftory  to  theworft.  ,Tj  t 

Where  pleafure  is  fought, 
there  he  deferves  «0  \eSsprai/e9 
who  Jays  very  badly  ///#?*  he 
who  fays  very  zvell,  as  among 
fingers  no  ma  a  pleafes,  unltjs 
he  thdit Jirtgs  either  notably  well, 
0r  extraordinary  ?7/.  Do  not 
more  laugh,  upon  hearing 
the  cuckow,  than  the  nightin* 
gale?  Here  indifference  ha  s  no 
praife. 


Rut  why  are   they  punifhed 
who  get  praife? 

Eut.    Ne 


H 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


Eut.  Ne  nimia  felici- 
tas  provocat  aliquam 
Nemefm  Mis,  fi  aufe- 
rent  ct  laudem  ttimmu- 
nitatem  fimul. 

Af.  Per  Bromium 
Minos  ipfe  nunquam 
tulit  aequiorem  legem. 

Phylyth.  Feres  nul- 
lum legem  de  modo  bi- 
bendi  ? 

Eut.  Re  defpefla,  fe- 
quar  exemplum  Agefiiai 
r-egis  Laced^emonio- 
rum. 

Phylyth.  Quid  is  fe- 
cit ? 

n\i£«  Cum  is  quodum 
piety  ore  delectus  tjfet 
ui  Mipofiarchus,  arbitrio 
laiorum  ;  architnclino 
rogante  quantum  vini 
iuberet  apponi.  cuique, 
inquit,  Ji  largior  co- 
pia  vini  parata  eit,  data 
cuique,  quantum  po- 
pofcerit  ;  Ji  malignior, 
di/iributio  omnibus  ex 
aque. 

'Phylyth.  Quid  fibi 
\o\u\t  ille  Lacon  cum 
diceret  hcec  ? 

Eut.   Agebat    hoc  ut 
ccnvivium    neque  eflet 
temulentiwi,  neque  rur» 
Jam  querulum. 


Left  excefwe  happinefs  mould 
provoke/^*:  Nemefis  o,gainJl 
them,  if  they  Jliould  get  both 
praife  and  immunity  together. 

By  Bromius  Mvnos  himfelf 
never  made  a  more  reafonable 
law. 

Will  you  make  no  law  con* 
ceming  the  manner  of  drink- 
ing ? 

o 

The  thing  being  con/idered,! 
will  follow  the  example  of  A- 
gefilaus,  King  of  the  Lacede- 
monians. 

What  did  he? 

When  he  on  a  certain  time 
had  been  chofen  governor  of  a 
feaiW  the  plea  Jure  of  the  dice  ; 
the  m after  of  the  houfe  atfking 
how  much  wine  he  ordered  to 
be  ferved  up  to  every  one,  he 
fays,  if  a  large  plenty  of  wine 
be  provided,  give  to  every  one 
as  much  as  he  calls  for;  if  a 
more  fparing,  divide  to  every 
one  alike. 

What  meant  that   Lacede-  « 
monian    when    he     faid     theft 
things  ? 

Fie  meant  this  that  thefeaft 
fhould  neither  be  drunken,  not 
again  quarrelfome. 

Phvlvth. 


•CONVIVrUM  FABULOSUM. 


%5 


Phylyth.  Qui  fie  ?  How  fo  ? 

Eut.  Quia  funt  qui        Becaufe  there  are  fo me  who 
gaudent  bibere  largius,    love  to  drink  plentifully ,  there 
funt   qui  gaudent  par-    are  others   who   love    to  drinle 
cius.     Reperiuntur    et  fparingly.     There  are  Hkewife 
abflemii,  qualis  Romu-    found  abflemious  people,   fuch 
lus  dlcitur fuiffe.      Ita-    as  Romulus  is  faid/#  havebeen» 
que  Ji     vinum    datur    Therefore    if  wine  is  given  t» 
nulli  niji  pofcenti,  pru    none  but  him   that  calls   for  it 
mum  nemo  compellitur  firfl,  nobody  is  forced  to  drink, 
ad  bibendum,  et  tamen    und  yet  they  want  nothing,  to 
dejiderant  nihil,  quibus    whom  plentiful  drinking  is  a-* 
largior potatio  eft  gra-    greeable.       So   it    comes  about 
ta.     Itaft  ut   nemo  fit    that  nobody  is  fad  in    the  feafL 
Again,  if  -a    lefs    quantity    of 
wine    is    diftributcd    272    equal 
/hares    to   each,    they    have  e~ 
nough  that   drink    moderately, 
nor  can  any  one  murmur  in  e- 
bibunt  moderatius,   ne-    quality,    fince    he   that  would 
qne    poteft      quifquam    have  drunk  plentifully ,compof- 
obmuvmur^re  in  a^qual-    es  him fe If  to  temperance  zoitk 
ztate ;  quando  qui hauf-    a  contented  mind.     If  this  ex* 
turus  em  largius^com-    ample  pleafcs  you,  /  will  ifeit* 
iponitfe   ad    temperan-    for  we  would  have  this  to    be  a 
tiam  azquo  animo.     Si    itory  telling,   not   a    drunken 
hec    exempium    placet,  feafL 
utar,  nam  volumus  hoc 
e/fe  fabulofum,    nonv'i- 
nofnm  convivium. 

Phylyth.   Quid  igi- 
tur  bibahat    Romulus  ? 
Eut.  Idem  quod  ca- 
nes be  bunt. 

Ph)  ]ylh.  An -non  if 
tud  inJitrnum  re?e  ? 


triflis  in  convivio. 
Rurfus,  fi  parcior  co- 
pia  vini  diftribuitur  ce* 
quis  portionibus  in  fin- 
gulost  habent  fatzs   qui 


II 


What  then  drank  Romulus? 

The  fame  that  dogs  drink  ? 

Is  not   that  unworthy  of  a 
king  ? 

Eut.  Nihil 


.86 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


.Eut.  Nihil  ?nagis 
quara !  quod  reges  Jpu 
rant  sere  communi  cum 
canibus,  nifi qnodzllud 
interefl,  rex  non  bib 4 
eande?naqudLm,quam  ca- 
nis  bi  beret,  fed  r<2?uj 
haurit  tfre ;»■  quetn  r€# 
efflavit.  Et  viciffem 
rex  haurit  cerem  quern 
ratffj  efflavit.  Alexan- 
der Hie  Magnus  tuliflet 
^/z/j*  glorias, J?  bibiffet 
<:w/ra  canibus.  Nam  &£. 
•St/  pejus  rege  qui  tfrgi* 
/at  tot  millibus  homxn- 
u?n,  quam  vinolentia, 
-Casterum  Romulmniu- 
2  fie  abfle?niu?n,  apo- 
thegma  diclum  ab  illo 
.57(7«  infejlivittr  4ecla- 
rat.  Etenim  cum  ywi- 
dfara  videns  tV/z/wi  ab- 
ftinere  6  nW  dixiflet, 
vinum  futurum  azVe,  fi 
omnes  bibcr  cut  que  mad- 
modum  ille  :  Imo,  z«- 
^wz/,  turn  arbitror  fore 
cari{ji/mum,Xi  omnes  bi- 
berent  vinum  quemad- 
rnodum  e?o,  nam  fo'^0 
quantum  /z&tf. 

Ge.  Utinam  nojlcr 
Joannes  Botzemus  ca- 
aionicus  Conflantinenjis 
'^de/frt  /*e?c.      Nam  et 


No  ?72t7r<?  than  that  king 
breath*  in  the  air  cvm?non  wit 
dogs,  />a/  that  Mere  t'j  Ma/  d// 
ference  ;  the  king  does  nol 
drink  the  fame  water  which  the 
dog  dra nk,  but  Me  dfog  draw* 
in  the  air  which  Me /$?'7?£breath. 
ed  out.  And  again  Me  king 
draws  in  Me  azr  which  the  dog 
breathed  out.  Alexander  the 
great  had  got  more  glory,  if  he 
had  drunk  with  the  dogs.  Foi 
nothing  is  work  for  a  king, 
who  watches  over  fo  many 
thoufand  we/z,then  drunkenne/s, 
But  M#*  Romulus  was  <z£//e- 
mious,  an  apothegm  fpoken  by 
him  fltf^  unwittingly  declares., 
i^r  when  <?/?e  feeing  Am  ab- 
Ham  from  wine,  had  faid  Ma* 
wine  would  be  cheap,  if  ah 
ihould  drink  as  he  :  ti ay, fays 
he9  then  /  think  it  would  be 
i>ery  dear,  if  <z//  fhould  drink 
wine  as  /  dfo,  for  /  drink  33 
much  as  /  have  a  mind. 


I  wifh  ^wr  John  Botzemt 
Canon  of  Conflance,  was  /zere, 
For  /ze  /00  is  /20  Ithabfleiniou^ 
than  /ze  j  j  /azV  ta  be  ;  other- 


CONVIV1UM  FABULOSUM. 


Ht 


z&non   minus  a b/le-    wife   a  courteous  and  pkafant 

ius  quam  dicitur,  ali-    companion, 

ique  comis  et  JeJIivus' 

onviva. 
Po.  Age,Ji  poteftis,        Come  z/* you  can,   I  will  net 

en    dicam,   forbere  et  fay,  to  {v\^  and  blow  at  the  fame 

arc/imul,  quod  Plan*    time,    which  Plautus    fays    is 

us  ait  ejfe  difficile  ;yW  difficult,  but  to  eat  fltfdf  hear, 
jdere  et  audire,  quodefk1  which  is  very  eafy  ;  I  will  be- 

•erfacile  ;  aufpicabor  gin  the  bufinefs  of  telling  fto- 
minus   fabulandi  bonis-  ries   with  good  luck.      If  $£ 

vibus.     Si  fabula  exit  flory  be  not  a  pretty  one,  know 

arum  lepfrfa,  fcitote  it  is  a  Dutch  one.  I  fuppofe 
Satavameffe.  Opinor  the  name  of  Maccus  has  been 
\iomen  Macci   auditum    heard  by  fame  of  you. 

liquot  vejirum. 

Ge.  Non  ell  ita  diu        It  is  notjblongjince  he  died*  ■ 
}Uod  periij. 
Po.  Cum  is  veniffet        When  lit  was  come  into  a 

n  civitatem  qu£  dicitur  city  which  is  called  Leyden, 
Leydis,  ac  novus  hof-  and  being  a  new  guefl,  had  a 
pes  vellet  innotefcere  viindto  become  known  byfome 
yuopiam  joco,  (nam  is   jeft,  (for  that   was  the   man's 

rat  homini  mos)  in-  way) :  he  entered  M^  /720/?  of  a 
^refTus  eft  offtcinam  fhoemaker,  Jalutes  hi?n.  He 
calcearii,  falutat.  llle  de firing  to  put  off  /zu  ware, 
cupiens  extrvdere  fuas  c/Jj  if  he  would  have  any 
merces,  rogat  nunquid  thing.  Maccus  calling  his 
vellet.  Mac co  conji-  eyes  upon  leather  (lockings 
ciente  oculos  in  ocreas  that  hung  there,  the  Jlioe maker 
pen/iles  ibi,  calcearius  afks  him  7/  he  would  have 
rogat  num  veWet  0 ere-  leather  Jlockings.  Maccus  a- 
as.  Macco  annuente,  greeing  to  it,  he  reeks  fome  jfcf 
qudzrit  aptas  tibiis  illi-  tor  his  legs,  he  produced  them 
us,  protulit  inventas  when  found  cheerfully,  and  as 
edacriter,  et  ut  folent,    they  ufe  to  do,   draws  them  on 

indue  it 


88  CONVIVIUM  fabulosum; 

inducit  illi.     vbi  Mac-  for  him.     /772£/2   Maccus   #020 

eus  y<2?»  efTet   eleganter  was    handfomely     fitted     with 

ocreateis.     Qitam  belle,  leather  Hackings.      7/<9&>   well, 

inquitj   par     calceorum  quoth  he,  would  a  pair  of fhoes 

duplicatis    foleis    cor*-  with  double  folcs,  agree  jz'z/A 

grueret /zzi"  ocreis.  /?#-  //z^/I?  leather  flockings.     Being 

gatus  an  velUt  et  calce-  afked  whether  he  would  have 

os,    annuit»        Keperti  Jhoes  too. he  agrees  to  it*  They 

funt  et   additi  pedibus.  were  found,  and  put  upon  his 

Maccus  laudabal  ocre-  feet.     Maccus   commended  the 

as,    laudabal     calceos.  ilockingsycom?nended  thefhoes. 

Calcearius  gaudens  la-  The  five  ma  her  rejoicing  fiknt- 

cite  fuccinebat  illi  lau-  ly%  agreed  with /22/72  commend- 

danti,  fperans    a?quius  fng  them,   hoping  for  a  better 

pretium,      pofteaquam  price,  feeing  the   ware  pleafed 

?nerx   placeret  emptori  the  buyer  lo  much.     And  now 

tantopere.  Et  jam  non-  Jome  familiarity  was  contracc- 

nulla   familiaritas    erat  ed.     Here    Maccus  /ays,     tell 

contrafta.     litic  Mac-  me  in  good  faith,  did  it    never 

cus  inquit,  die  ?nihi  bo-  happen  to  you,  that  one  whom 

na  fide    nunquamne  ufu  youhadjurniftedthuswithlea- 

vtnit  tibi,  #2*   quern  «r-  ther  floe  kings  and  /Wi   for  a 

maffes  tic  ocreis  et  cal-  race,as nowyou have me,wen toff 

ctis  ad  curfum  quemad-  without     paying    the    price    ? 

viodum     nunc    armafli  Never,    fays    he.       But    if  by 

me,  abierat  non  name-  chance,  fays  he,  itfnould  hap- 

rato  pretio  ?  Nunquam,  pen,  what  would  you   do  then  ? 

ait  ille.      At  que    tifor-  I  zoould  follow  Mm,    fays    //i<?. 

fr,   inquit,    venial    ifu,  fioemaker.  Then  Maccus  fays, 

quid    in  facercs   turn  ?  do  you/ay  that   772    earnefl,  or 

Confquertr,  inquit  £#/-  2/2  /f//  ?     Truly  I  [peak  in  ear- 

cearius.     Turn  Maccus  neftfays  the  other,  ^rci  would 

inquit,    </im    iiia/Jr70  do  in  ca?ne/L     I  will   try,  fays 

zmjoco  ?    Plane  ioquor  Maccus  ;   /0  I  run    before  7W 

ferio,  inquit  alter,  ^  fa-  the  Jhoes,  do  you    follow  r#?2- 

ceremy^nc?.       lixperi-  ib"»<f  ;  and    together  ^2^/2  //22^ 

ar, 


CONVlVILfM  FABULOSUM. 


89 


arr.mV  Maccus  ;  ^aprae- 
l  eurro  pro  calcejj,  tu  fe- 
quere  curfu  ;  fimuiq  ; 
cum  diclo  conjecity^  in 
pedes.  Calcearius  con- 
fecutus  eft  e  vejligio 
quantum  poterat,  cla- 
|  mitaas,  tenete  furem,^- 
mte  furem.  Cum  cives 
profiliijfent  ex  asdibus 
undique  ad  hanc  vo- 
cem,  Maccus  cohibuit 
illos  hoc  commento,  ne 
(juis  injiceret  manum. 
In  quit  ridens  ac  placi^ 
do  vultu,  Ne  quis  rem 
moretur  noftrum  cur- 
fum  ;  certamen  eft  de 
cupa  cerevifice.  Itaqae 
jam  o  nines  prcehebant 
fe  fpe&atores  certami- 
nis  ;  Nam  fu/picaban- 
tur  calcearium  fingere 
eura  clamorem  dolo,  ut 
hac  occafione  anteverte- 
ret.  Tandem  calcear- 
ius  viEtus  curfu  rediit 
dcmwn  fudans  tt  anhe- 
lus.  Maccus  tulit  bra? 
beam. 

Ge.  I-fte  Maccus  qui- 
dem  effugit  calcearium, 
ct  non  effagkfurem. 
Po.  Ouamobrem  ?« 
Ge.  Quia  Jerebat  fu- 
xzxr\jecum% 


faying,  he  threw  himfelf  upon 
his  feet.  The  Jlioe maker  fol- 
lowing hirn  forthwith ,  as  faft 
as  he  could \  bawling,y?<^  the 
thief,  /lop  the  thief.  What 
the  citizens  ran  out  of  their 
houfes  on  all  fides  at  this  cry, 
Maccus  hindered  them  by  this 
contrivance,  that  nobody  Jhould 
lay  hands  on  him.  He  fays, 
fmiling.  and  with  a  plea J ant 
countenance,  let  nobody  flop 
our  running,  the  race  is  for  a 
tankard  of  ale.  Wherefore 
now  all  became  fpeftators  of 
the  race  ;  for  theyjufpecled  that 
the  fhoemaker  pretended  that 
cry  out  of  roguery,  that  by  that, 
means  he  might  get  before  him, 
At  laft  the  flioemaker  being 
beat  in  the  race,  returned  home 
fweating  and  out  of  breath* 
Maccus  got  the  prize, 


That  Maccus  indeed  efcapcd 
the  fhoemaker,  but  he  did  n0t 
efcape  the  thief 

What  for? 

Becaufe  he  carried  the  thieJ 
with  him* 

.  Po.  Forte 


9o 


COXVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


Po. Forte  pecunia  non 
erat  ad  nianum>  quam 
poflea  refolvit. 

Ge.  Verumenz/aclio 
furti. 

Po.  Ea  quidem  inten- 
tata  eft  pojt,  fed  jam 
Maccus  innotuerat  ali- 
quot   in  agi fir  ah  bits. 

Ge.Ouid  attulitMac- 
cus  ? 

Po.  Quid  attulit,  ro- 
gas  in  cafu  tarn  vincibi- 
\\  ?  Aclor  magis  peri- 
clitatus  eft  quam  reus. 

Ge.  Qui  fie  ? 

Po.  Quia  gravabat 
ilium  aclione  calumniae, 
et  intendebat  Rhemian 
legem  %  qua?  did  at,  ut 
quin  intenderet  crimen 
quod  non  pqfpt  probare? 
jlret  pcenarn  quam  reus 
laturus  erat9  (i  juiffet 
conviclus.  Negabat  fe 
g o  n  tr  e  6ta  fle  zke na  m  rem 
invito  domino,  Jed  de- 
ferente  u!tro9  nee  til  lam 
xnentionem  pretii  inter- 
ceGifle  ;  fe  provocajfe 
calcearium  ad  certavien 
cur  jus-/.  Ilium  accept jfe 
'conditionem,firc.  habere 
qucd  querentur  cum 
ejj'it  fuperatus  curfu, 

Ge.  Uaec  atlio  non 
mukum  abefl  ab  umbra 
afini.  Quid  tandem  ? 


Pivhaps  money  wag  not  at 
hand  which  afterwards  he  paid. 

But  (here  was  an  aftion  of 
the/}. 

That  indeed  was  brought  af- 
terwards, but  now  Maccus  was 
become  acquainted  with  fome 
magiflrates. 

What  did  Maccus  plead  ? 

What  did  he  plead,  do  you- 
ajk,  in  a  caufe,  fo  eafy  to  bs. 
carried  ?  The  prqjecutor  was- 
more  in  danger  than  the  perfon 
indifted. 

How  fo  ? 

Becaufe  he  loaded  him  with 
an  acHon  of'flander  ;  and  urgecr 
the  Rhemian  law,  which  orders,,. 
that  he  who  brings  a  charge. 
which  he  cannot  prove,,  Jliall 
fi-'Jfe r  the  p un  i  (h  m e n t  wh ich 
the  perfon  indlEted Jliiuld  have 
Juffered,  \\  he  had  been  convift- 
ed.  He  denied  th3t  he  med- 
dled with  the  other's  ware  a- 
gainft  the  will  of  the  owner, 
but  on  his  giving  it  of  his  own 
accord,  and  that  na  mention  of 
price  had  paffed  betwixt  them  ;. 
that  he  had  challenged  the  fhoe- 
maker  to  the  running  of  a  race  ,\ 
That  he had accepted 'the  propo- 
fal,  and  had  nothing  that  he 
could  complain  0/" feeing  he  was 
beat  in  a  .ace. 

This  action  is  not  muchJJiort 
of  the  fhadow  of  the  ajs.  What 
came  of  it  at  laft  ? 

P, 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


9* 


P.  Ubi  rifum  ejl  fatis, 
qui  dam  e  judicious  vo- 
eavit  Maccum  ad  cce- 
nam,  et  numeravit  cal- 
ceario  pretium.  Quid- 
dam  fimile  accidit  Da- 
ventnoz  me  puero.  E- 
rat  ill  ud  temp  us,  quo 
pi/ cat  ores  regnant,  lann 
frigent.  Ouidam  afta- 
bat  ad  fenejtra??i  fruftu- 
aviae,  vehementer  cbefae 
fanuna,  .oculis  intentis 
in  ea  quoz  pofita  erant 
venum.  Ilia  invitabat 
hominem  ex  wore  fi 
quid  vellet.  Et  cum  vi- 
deret  intentum  ficis,  &£f 
ficos  ?  ait, {unt  per  quam 
el'gantes.  Cum  ille  an- 
nuiflet,  rcg-fl^  quot  /z- 
^r^j  vellet.  J'u,  in- 
quit,  quinque  libras  ? 
Annuenti  eflfudit  t "ant urn 
ficorum  in  gremium. 
Dum  ilia  reponit  lan- 
ces >  i\\e  fhbduatfe,  non 
curju,  fed  placide.  Ubi 
prodijjet  acceptura  /tf- 
cumam,  vidit  emptor  em 
abire  ;  infequitur  ma- 
jore  t/0t'<?  quam  curfu. 
11  Ie  dijjimulans^  pergit 
(7z/6>  cceperat  2r<?.  Tan- 
dem multis  concurren- 
tibus  aJ  r/flftrafcernina?, 
re/iitit.  Ibi  cai^/Es  agi- 
tur  2«  corona  populi  ; 
njus  exoritur  ;  emptor 
negabat/*  ^mpfjje  fed 


When  they  had  laughed  fujfi- 
ciently,  one  of  the  judges  invito 
ed  Mace  us  to. /up per,  and  paid 
the  fhoemaker  his  price.  Some- 
thing like  this  happened  at  Da- 
ventry,  when  I  was  a  boy,  it 
was  that  time,  when  the  fiJJitr- 
men  reign,  the  butchers  ftarve. 
A  certain  fellow  flood  at  the 
window  oia  fruitfeller,  a  very 
fat  woman,  with  his  eyes  intent 
upon  thofe  things  which  were 
expofed  to  fale.  She  invited 
the  man  according  te  cuflomf 
if  A<?  would  have  any  thing.  And 
&>/^/z  fhe  faw  him  intent  upon 
the  fig,  «uz//  jy#&  Aat/*  fl?zy  figs  ? 
faxsjhe,  they  arc  very  fine-  ones. 
When  he  agreed  on  it,  jhe  a/ks 
him  how  many  pounds  he  would 
have.  Will  you  kaves  fays  fhe, 
five  pounds  ?  On  his  agreeing 
to  italic  poured/3  manyhgs  inio 
his  hg/pm'i  W  nil  R Jhe  lays  by 
the  Jcales,  he  withdraws*  not 
running  but  eafily.  When  Jhe 
came  out  to  receive  her  money \ 
ihe  faw  her  chapman  was  going 
off.Jke follows  with  a  greater 
W02/5?  than  pace.  He  taking  no 
notice)  goes  on  whether  he  had 
begun  /0  £<?.  At  laft  many 
people  coming  together  at  tht 
clamor  of  the  woman,  he  flood. 
There  the  can  ft  .is  tried  in  a 
ring  of  people  :  A  laughter  is 
fet  up  ;  ihe  chapman  denied  that 
he  bought  them.,  but  that  he 
received  what  had  been  given  t?# 
kir  own  accord;  \i  JJie  would 
accepijfe 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


accepiffe  quod  fuijfet  de- 
ktum  ultro  s  fi  vellet 
cxperiri  coram  judici- 
bus.y?  comperiturum. 

Ge»  Age,  narrabo 
fabulam  non  admodura 
dtffimilem.  tu«,  nee  for- 
taffe  inferiorem&tixquid 
hasc  non  habeat  au£to- 
retn  perinde  eclebrem  at- 
que  eft  Maccus.  Pyth- 
agoras dwidebat  totum 
vnercatam  in  tria  homu 
num  genera,  quorum  a- 
Hi  prodiflent  ut  vende- 
rent,  alii  ut  eraerent : 
aiebat  hoc  utrumque 
genus  ejfe  folicitum,  ac 
proinde  nonfelix,  alios 
non  venire  in  forum  ob 
aliud,  quam  ut  fpettent 
gatfdfproferatur  z//zr,aut 
quod  agatur  :  hos  folos 
tffe  felices,  quod  vacui 
curis9  irucr  entur  grata- 
ita  voluptate.  Atque 
ad  hunc  modum  dicebat 
philofophum  verfari  in 
hoc  mundo'quz?mdmo- 
duni  illi  verfanntur  in 
mercatu,  Verum  in  nof- 
tvhemporiis  quarturng-*- 
nu  sh  o  m  i  n  u  mfbletob  a  m  - 
buUTe,quiT\<tcemunt  nzc 
vendunt ,nec  contemplan- 
tur  otiofe,  fed  obfervant 
folicite  fi  pojfint  invora^ 
re  quid.  Atque  quidam 
reperiuntur  mire  dextri 
in  hoc  genere  s  dtceref 


try  it  before    the  juftices,    kt 
would  appear. 


Well,  I  will  tell*  flory  n&t 
much  unlike  yours,  nor  perhaps 
inferior ,  but  that  this  hath  not 
an  author  Jo  famous  as  Maccus 
is.  Pythagoras  divided  the 
whole  market  into  three  kinds 
of  men,  whereofjOw*?  go  that 
they  may  fell,  others  to  buy  : 
He  faid  that  both  theft  kinds 
were  concerned,  and  therefore 
not  happy  ;  That  others  did  not 
come  into  the  market  for  any 
thing  elf e  than  that  they  may 
fee  what  is  produced  there,  or 
what  is  done  :  That  thefe  alone 
z*/£r£  happy,  becaufe  being  free 
/r0#2  ozw,  they  enjoyed  a  gra- 
tuitous pleafure.  And  after  this 
manner,  he  faid  a  philofopher 
was  in  the  world,  as  they  &;£re 
in  the  market.  But  in  our  mar- 
kets, a  fourth /aW  of  men  ufes 
to  walk  about,  who  neither  buy 
norfellinor  look  about  them  idly 
but  watch  carefully,  it  they  can 
fharp  any  thing.  And  fome  are 
found  zconderfulty  dextrous  in 
this  kind;  you  would  hythattJiey^ 
were  born  under  the  favor  of 
Mercury.  Themafcrofthefeajl 
has  given  a  flory  with  a  concliu 
fion.  1  will  give  you  one  with  a 
preface.  Now  hear  what\aie\y 
happen0 d  at  Antwerp.  A  certain 
pneft  Atftff  received  there  £  »*0^- 
<T£/<r  fuai  of  money ;  but  2/2  //- 
mi  os.- 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


9Z~ 


«a/^Mer'curio  favente. 
\Convivator  dedit  fabu- 
lam  cum   coronide  ego 
dabo    cum      proaemio. 
bAfaflcaccipite  quod  nu- 
JperacaizV  Antwerpiac. 
[Qui  dam  facrificus   ?w 
iperat    ijlie     vv  dxocrem 
\  iummam  pecum<z>    fed 
r arprntece.    Quidam  im- 
;  poftor     animadv?rterat 
id.       yWnV  facrifcum, 
qui  ge/labat   crumenam 
turgidam  numm'xsin zo- 
na j    falutat    avi  liter, 
narrat  fibi  datum  nego- 
hum  a  fuis,   ut  m  rcare- 
tur  novum    facrum  pal- 
,  Hum    parocho   fui  vici, 
qua  eftfumma    v  eft  is 
Jacerdoti  per3genti    di" 
vinam   rem.     Rogat  ut 
commodaret/^f  tantil- 
lum    operas,   ut  irct  ie- 
cum  ad  eoss  qui  vendunt 
ejufmodi  pallia  ;  quo(\im 
rneret  majus  aut   minus 
ex  modotllius  corporis, 
nam  ip/ius  ftaturam  vi- 
dtn  fibi  congruerz    ve- 
hementer   caw   magni- 
tudine   parochi.      Cum 
hoc  vuleretur   love  0^z- 
a«//i,     facrificus  facile 
pollicitus  efl.      Adeunt 
aedes  cujuj'dam.     Palli- 
um prolatum  ejl.  Sacri- 
fices induiL     Venditor 
ajfxrmat   mire   congru- 
e/e,  caw  impoftor  c$n* 


ver»  A  certain  cheat  had  ob- 
Jervedit.  He  went  to  theprie/i^ 
who  carried  the  purfe  ftuff'd 
with  money  ?rc  Azj-  i<?//  ;  he  fa- 
lutes  him  civilly  >  he  tells  him 
that  he  was  employed  by  his 
neighbors  *0  buy  a  new  farplice 
for  ike  par/on  of  their  town, 
which  is  the  upper  garment  of 
the  priejt  performing  divine fer- 
vice*  He  afks  him  that  he 
would  lend  him  a  little  of  his 
help,  that  he  would  go  with 
him  to  thofe  who  fell  /tfc/a- 
gowns  ;  that  he  might  take  it 
bigger  or  /<?/;  by  the  meal  u  re  of 
his  body,  for  his  flature  fumed 
to  him  to  agree  mightily  icith 
the  fize  of  their  par  fen.  And 
as  this  fee  med  a  flight/<?ny/c<?,the 
prieft.  eafdy  promifed.  They  go 
to  the  houfe  of  a  certain  man* 
The  garment  was  produced. 
The  prieft  puts  it  on.  The 
feller  affirms  that  it  fitted  won- 
derfully. When  the  cheat  had 
viewed  Hit  prieft  one  while  be- 
fore, another  behind,  he  pre- 
tended that  it  was  fhorter  before 
than  was  fit.  There  the  feller, 
/V/r  the  bargain  fhould  not  go 
forward,  denies  that  to  be  the 
fault  of  the  garment,  /;#£  that 
the  full  ^«r/e  was  the  occafion, 
that  the  fhcrtnefs  offended  on 
that  fide.  What  needs  viany 
words  ?  The  prieft  lays  down, 
the  purfe.  They  view  him  again. 
There  the  cheat,  the  priejl  being 
turned  from  him,  whips  up  the 
templatus 


94  CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUWr. 

templatus    ejftt    facrifi-    purfe,  cyid  throws  himfelfupon^ 
cum  nunc  a  ironte,nunc    his  feet.       Hit  pncjl    follows 
a    tergo,     caufatus   eft    him  running  as  he  was  with  the 
brevius  ajronte  quam    furpliceon,  and  the   feller  the 
ejfet  par.     lbi  venditor,    priejh     The   parfon  cries  out9 
ne  contractus  non  pro*    flop  the  thief  I    the   feller  cries 
cedent,  negat  id  effevi-    out.  Hop  the  par/on,   the   cheat 
tinm  pallii,yid?    twrgi-    cries  out,  flop  the  mad.  pried; 
dam  crumenam  efficere,    and  it  was  believed,  zuhen  they 
ui  bre vitas  offender  et  e&    faw  him   run  /#  dreffed,  in  the 
parte.       (?fcz</  multxs  ?   flreets  ;  wherefore  zvhiljt  one  is 
Sacrificus  depenit  cm-    a  hindrance  to  the  other3  <Aar 
menam.       Contemplan-    cheat  got  a  way, 
/#r  denuo.     /&  impof- 
tor,  /acr'fico  averfo,  ar- 
rz/?^  crumenam,tfcaon~ 
jicit/Sin  pedes*   Sacer- 
dos  infequitur  c&r/a  ut' 
erat  palliatus,  et  vendi- 
torfacrijicam,     Sacrifi- 
cus  clamat  tenete  furem, 
venditor  clamat  tenete 
Jacrificum*       impolior 
clamat  cohibete  Juren- 
tern  iacrrficum  ;  et  ere* 
ditum  eft,  cum  viderent 
turn  currere  jic  ornatum 
in  publico  J  itaque  dum 
alter  eft  in   mora  alteri, 
i?npoftor  efxugit. 

Eu.Dignus  qui  pen-        Worthy  to  pcrijfc  not  by  a 
at  nonjimplici   fufpen-  fing /changing, 
dio. 

Ge.  Nifi  jdm  pendet..       Unlefs  he  be  hanged  already. 

Eu.  Utinam  nonfo*        I  wifh  not   he  alone,   but  to- 
lus,  fed  una   cum  illo%   gt tfo r  zoith  kirn.,  they  who  fa- 
qui  favent   talibus  por-    vor  fach  ?nonfters  to  the  ruia 
tends  in  perniciem  r*im    of  the  Commonzoealth. 
-  public*. 

Ge.  Non  favent  era.       They  do  not  favor  them>r 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


95 


tis.  Eft/  catena,  quae 
demifja  in  terras  pertin- 
get  did  Joveni. 

Eu.  Redeundum  ad 

Jabulas. 

As.  Ordo  rtdit  ad  te, 

j£  fas  eft  c0g<rn?  Regem 
in  ordinem. 

Eu.  Non  cogar,  imp 
veniam   volens  in  brdi- 

jnem,  alto  qui  effem  (y- 
rannus,  non  rex,y?  re- 
cufera  /^j  quas  ^r^- 

Jcribo  aliis. 

As.  Veruntamen  az- 
#ft/  principem  ^  fu- 
pra  leges. 

Eu.  Iftuc  von  e/l  om- 
nino falfo  di£lumj£  ac- 
cipias   principem  ilium 

Jammumy  quern  turn  vo- 
cabant  Cajarem.  De- 
inde//  fie  accipiasyw- 
periorem  legibus,  quod 
alii  coaBi  fervantzzzYwtt- 
##£,  ilium  praztejiare 
multo    cumulatius  ///# 

Jponte*  Nam  quodnm- 
mus  *y?  corpon,  >4<?r  eft 
bonus  princeps  reipub- 
licce,  Sed  ^W2d?  opus 
erat  addere^tftfwtfzquiun 
rnalus  princeps  7?<?tf  ejt 
princeps  ;  quemadmo- 
du ?nt  im  p  ur us  [pi  ritus 
qui  invajit  corpus  horn- 
inis%  non  eft  animus, 
Sed  adjabulam  ;  et  ar- 
tortf/xonvenire,  z/z4  1  ex 
adjeram  iabulam  regi- 


nofhing.  There  is  a  chain% 
which  being  let  down  upon  the 
earth  reaches  to  Jupiter. 

We  mull  return  to  our  Jlo* 
ties. 

The  turn  is  come  to  you,  if 
it  be  lawful  to  force  a  king  to 
order. 

I  will  not  be  forced,  nay  I 
will  come  willingly  into  order, 
otherwise  I  Ihould  be  a  tyrant* 
not  a  king,  if  I  mould  refufe 
the  Uws  which  I  prefcribe  to 
others. 

Neverthelefs  thy  Jay  a  prince 
is  above  the  laws. 

That  is  not  altogether  fqfely 
faid,?/ryou  mean  by  a  prince 
that  great  one,  which  then  they 
called  Cajar.  And  then  if 'you 
fo  underitand  fupenor  to  the 
laws  z^zzz*  others  bnngJorced% 
keep  them  infome  meqfure,  that 
he  obferves  them  much -more 
fully  of  his  own  accord.  Fof 
what  the  fowl  i£  to  the  body, 
that  is  a  good  prince  to  the. 
commonwealth.  But  what  need 
z^j-  //zdr£  to  add  good^  hnce  *z 
bad  prince  is  not  a  prince  ;  as 
an  impurej/^znV,  that  hadfeiz* 
<^the  body  gftf  man  is  not  z^<? 
y^/.  But  to  the /lory  ;  and  / 
think  it  is  fit,  that  I  being  a 
kingyJhould  bring  a  ftory  cf  a 
king.  Lewis,  king  0/  France^ 
the  elevemh  of  that  na?ne,\vhzi\ 
affairs  being  in  diforder  at 
ho?nc,  he  fojourned  among  the 

arc 


9$ 


CONV1VIUM  FABULOSUM. 


am.       Ludovicus    rex 
Galliarum     undecimus 
ejus  nominis,  cum,rebus 
turbatis  domi,  peregrin- 
aretur  apud  Burgundi- 
ones,  occafione  venatio- 
nis  na£tus  eft familiar i- 
tattm  cum  quodam  C©- 
none,    ruftico    ho  mine, 
fed  fimplicis  ac  finceri 
animi.       Nam   monar- 
chic dehElantur  homi- 
nibus  hujus  generis. Rex 
dwerterat      frequenter 
ndhujus  cedes  ex  veaa- 
tu,  tt    ut  nonnunquam 
magni  prinapes  delec- 
tantur  plebeis  rebus,  vef 
tebatur  rapis  apud  turn 
cum  magna    voluptate. 
Mox  ubi  Ludovicus ref- 
titutusj^w  potiretur  re- 
run apud  Gallos ;  uxor 
fubmonuit  Cononem,  ut 
com  rn'one  face  ret        re- 
gem  veteris  hofpitii,  et 
<\d  ferret  Mi  aliquot  in- 
fgnes  rapas  dorto.^  Ca- 
non tergrverfatus  eji,  fe 
lufurum  operam  ;  prin- 
.cipes  enim   con   memi- 
mffe  talium  officiorum. 
.«&*/  uxor  mcit.    Con  on 
deli  git   aliquot  infignes 
rapzs,accini;itur  itmere. 
Verum  ipie  captus  ille- 
cebra  cibi,  paulatim  de- 
voravit  envies,  ur\a  dun- 
tax  at  in  fig  niter  magna 
.£xcepta.        pbi   Conon 


Burgundians  on     occafion  k>J 
huntings  got  acquaintance  with 
0?2£  Conon,  a  country  fellow, 
but   of  an    hcneji  and  Jincert 
mind  ;j^r   monarchs   ^r<?    </<*- 
lighted  with  men    0/  this  fort. 
The  king  turned  frequently   /<? 
A/j  Atf  &/<?  after  hunting  ;  and  as 
fome  times    great     princes    are 
pleafed  o/?7/z  common  things,  /zd 
^/  turnips  with  him  with  great 
pleafure.       Soon    after    wher 
Lewis  being  reflored,   now  en- 
joyed  /Af  kingdom  among   the 
French  ;  the  wife  advifed    Co- 
non,  that    he    mould  put    the_ 
king  in  mind  of  his  old  enter- 
tainment, andi\\o\}\&  carry  him 
{omefne  turnips   as'  a  pre/ent. 
Conon  declined  it,  faying  that 
he  fhouid    lofe  his  labor  ;  for 
princes  did  not   remember//^ 
fervices.       But   the  wife   pre- 
vailed.       Conon    choqjes    out 
fome  fine   turnips,  prepares  for 
his    journey.      But  he   being 
tempted  with  the  allurements  of 
the  food,  by  little   and  little  de- 
voured them  all,  one   only,    a 
very    great      one,      excepted. 
When  Conon  baj  crept  into  the 
hall  where  th-  king  wasta  pa/s> 
he  was  prefently  known  bv  the 
king  and  Jent  for.     He  offered 
his  prefent  with  great   cheerful* 
nejs  j  the  king   received  it  with 
greater  cheerlulnefs  ;   ordering 
one  of  thofe     next    him»   that 
itfzouldbe  laid  up   diligently 
among   thofe  things  which   he 
ptorepfifTel 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


97 


arorepfiflet  in  aulam, 
}ua  rex  erat  iturus,Hdr 
:im  agnitus  eft  a  rege, 
it  accerjitus.  I  lie  dt* 
Yklit  munus  cum  m»g- 
I  J  a  alacritate,  rex  acce- 
hit  cum  majore  alacri- 
ate,  mandans  cuidam  e 
fyroximis,  ut  reponere- 
tur  diligenter  inter  ea 
jua  haberet  charijjima. 
/\w\>zlCononem  prandere 
tecum  ;  a  prandio  agit 
'gratias  Cononi,^  juflit 
\mille  coronatos  numera- 
ri  pro  rapa  Mi  eupienti 
repetere  fuum  rus.  Cum 
ifama  kujus  r  ei, ut Jit  per* 
vagata  effet  per  omne 
regis  famulitium,  qui- 
dam  ex  aulicis  dedit  re- 
gi  non  inelegant  em  e- 
quum  dono.  Rex  in- 
telligent ilium  provo- 
tatum  benignitate qu am 
pi  aeftiteret  Cononi,  cap- 
tare  pra:dam,  accepit 
mwnus  vultu  major  em 
in  modum  alacri,^  con- 
vocatis  primoribus,ccc- 
pit  confultare  quo  mu- 
nere  penjaret  tam  bel- 
lum  tamque  pretiofum 
equum.  Interim  qui 
doaarat  equum,  conce- 
pt opimas  fpes  animo, 

I 


counted  mojl  dear»  He  or- 
ders Conon  to  dine  with  him  ; 
after  dinner  he  gave  thanks  to 
Conon  ;#w^/ordered  a  thoufand 
crowns  to  be  paid  For  his  tur- 
nip to  him,  defiring  to  return  to 
his  own  country.  When  the 
fame  §J  this  things  it  happens* 
had  gone  through  all  the  king's 
fervants,  one  of  the  courtiers 
gave  the  king  no  uhhandfoma 
horfe  as  a  prefent.  The  king 
under/landing  that  he  being 
encouraged  by  the  kindneis 
which  he  had  (hewn  to  Conont 
catched  at  a  prize,  received  the- 
prefent  with  a  countenance 
?nore  than  ordinarily  cheerful ; 
and  having  called  together  his 
nobles,  he  began  to  ccnfult  with 
thzmwhditpYtkniheJIiGuldfnake 
as  a  return/or  fo  fine  and  Jo 
valuable  a  horfe.  In  the  mean 
time  he  who  had  given  the 
horfe,  conceived  rich  hopes  in 
his  mind  thinking  thus,  if  he 
made  fuch  a  return  for  a  tur- 
nip prefented  by  a  country  fel- 
low,^?*; much  moregeneroudy 
will  he  make  a  rtturnfor  fuch  a 
horfe  given  him  by  a  courtier ! 
When  one  anfwered  one  thing, 
another  another,  Jo  the  king, 
confulting  a/about  a  grand  af- 
fair, and  this  catching  fellow 
had  ieenfed  a  Jong  time  with 
covitans 


98  CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 

cogjtans  fie,  fijk  pen-    vain  hopes,  at  laft  the  kinghA 
javit  rapam  donatam  a    it  comzs  into   my   mind  what  J 
ruflico,  quanta  munifl-  JJiould  give  him,  and  one  oftht 
centius    penjaturus   ejl    nobles  being  called  to    him,  ht 
talemequum   oblaturn    zvhifpe red  in  his   ear,    that    he 
ab  aulico.       Cum  alius    fhould   bring   that    which    fa 
refponderet  aliud    regi  fnould  find  \nh\s  bedchamber, 
confultanti    vehdi     de    and  atthe  fame  ftWhed'efcribei 
magna  re,    et   captator    the  place  jwrappedun  dilige?ztl) 
latlatus  ejfet  dm  vana    in  (ilk.   The  turnip  is  brought, 
fpe,  tandem  rex  inquit,    77z<?  &«£  gives  it  with  his  own 
•  i^/zz/   mihi   in    mentem  hand  to  tJi^  x  our  tier,   as  it  wa 
quod  dtara»illi,<r/ quo-    wrapped  up,   adding,    that  the 
piam  ex  procenbu.s  zc-    horfe  feemed  to   him   a#//  paii 
cerfito,  ^a//  in  aurem,    for  with  a  precious  thingvihiq 
Mt    adferret    id     quod  Jiadcojl  him  a  thoufand  crowns 
reperiret     in    cubiculo    The  cvur  tier  going  away,  w  hi  I) 
(Jmulque   defigna-t   &-    he  takes  oft tke  cloth,  finds  jbr 
cumj  obvolutum    dili-    a  treafurc,  not   coals,    as   they 
genUr   ferico.       7&z/tt    fay,  £wzf  a  turnip  W0&J  dry.  Thui 
adfertur.       Rex    donat    that  catching  feWow  being  catch' 
cum  fua  manu   aulico,   id,  was  a  laughingflock  of  ever 
Ut  ^r^z4    obvoluta,  W-  ^y  £<?A'. 
.^wj,  equum  i/zam  fibi 
^;z<?  penfatum  cimelio 
quod     confiitijjet     fibi 
??n7/£  coronatis.     ^z/A- 
a^  digreifus    ^m  tol- 
lit  linteuvi,   reperit  pro 
ihejauro  non   carbonts, 
in  aiunt,  yfo/  rapamjam 
fubaridam.        Ita    ille 
captator    captus     rifui 
iliit  omnibus, 

A.  Jam/?  permiitis,        Now  ?/  you  permit  me, < 
rvvv,'  ut  plekeius  loquar    king9  that  /,  £il^  acommone 

regalia 


CONVIVItfM  FABULOSUM. 


99 


kgali  a  yef cram  quedzx 
\\d  fabula  venit  in  men- 
*m  de  eodem    Ludovi- 
o.     Nam  ut  anfa   tra- 
it  anfam,    it  a    fabuia 
abulam.   Cum  quid  am 
mulus    vidiflet    pedi- 
ulum  repent  em  in    te- 
la vejh%  fie x is  gen i bus, 
t  manu  iublata,  fig *ti fi- 
at   fe    velte    praeltare 
*fcio  quid  officii,    Lu- 
o vico  p  rceben te  f e ,  fuj- 
Lulit  pediculum,  et  ab- 
ecit  clam.      Rege  ro- 
\antt  quid  effet, puduit 
fateri.  Cum  rex  inflau- 
Vaiy  faflus  et\  fuffe  pe- 
liculum.      Eft    las  turn 
ffft?zi,    in-quit,   declarat 
znim  me  ^S  horn  in  em, 
fK#«t  hoc  genus  vermi- 
culorum  in  felt  at    ho??ii~- 
nem  peculiariter,   pra- 
fertim  in    adolefcentia, 
iitffifque       quadraginta 
core  nat  os  n  inner  an  pro 
officio.      lb  ft  aliquam 
mukos  dies,    alter  qui- 
dam,   qui    viderat    tam 
humile  ojficium  ceflifle 
f duller    ilii,    nee    ani- 
madvertens     plurimum 
intercil^/acias  quid  ex 
ammo  an  #r/£,  aggreflus 
eft  r^^  firuili  geftu^c 


mould  fpeak  q[  things  beloiigitfg 
to  &f2g\r,Iwill  relate  what  upon 
your  itory  comes  into  my  mind 
of  the  fame  Lewis.  lor  0i  a 
link  of  a  chain  draws  a  link, 
jo  does  aflory  ajlory.  When  Sr 
certain  jervant  had  ieen  £  /0*/$ 
creeping  upon  the  king' s  ccat.ow 
his  bended  knees, and  with  his 
hand  held  up,  he  fignijiss  that 
he  a/ «? tt /</ p ei  f o r m y < > ?g ^  0^? ce  o  i 
other.  Lewis  offering  himfeif, 
/ze  /j ?  4  off  t !  i e  I  o  u  fe,  a  n  d  1 1 i  r e  w 
it  away  privately.  The  king 
z?/7z z tfg  W h ut  i t  wa s , he  tea  f  djha m  - 
td  to  confefs.  When  the  king 
urged  him,  he  con  fe  fled  /A  a/  if 
a.'tf.y  a  loufe.//  zj  a  joyful  omen, 
quoth  he,  y#r  it  declares  that  I 
^/72  a  man,  becaitfe  this  kind  ^jT 
vermin  does  infeit  w£^  peculiar- 
ly, ejljeciatiy  in  his  yo.::h,  $i^ 
he  ordered  forty  crozvns  to  be 
\paid  him  /i)r  hisfervice.  After 
a  good  many  days,  /<?//z£-  other, 
who  /zW  obferved  that  lb  mean 
a  jet  vice  had  fallen  out  luckily 
for  him,  azzr/  /z#>>  minding  that 
there  is  a  great  deal  of  differ- 
ence  whether  you  do  a  thing 
/rtf/,7z  zVz<?  heart,  or  /7  <2r/,accoft- 
ed  z7ze  fortg  with  the  like  gef- 
ture,  and  again  lie  offering 
himfeif,  he  pretended  that  lie 
took /b?nethwg  from  the  king's 
coat,  which  prefently  he  threw 
rurjus 


400 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM., 


rurfus  illo  prcebente  fe 
fimulabat  le  tollere 
quid  dam  e  regia  vefte, 
quod  mox  abjiceret. 
Cum  re*  urgeret  ter- 
g^verfantem,  ut  diceret 
</#2af  tjfci%   pudore  mire 


away.      When  the  king  urged 

him  declining    to  tell   what    it 

was,  fhaine  being   wonderfully 

counterfeited,  at  length  he   an- 

fuered  that  it  was  a  flea.    The 

king  having    underjtood    the 

roguery,  what,   quoth  he,  will 

jimulato  tandem  rejp  on-  you  mahe  me   a  dog?  He  or* 

dit  effe  pulicem.     Rex    dered  the  fellow  to  be  taken  a- 

way,  tf/zd?  forty  Jlripes   to    be 

given  him /ar  the  forty  crowns 

In  catched  at. 


*la* 


intelledo  fuco,  quid,in- 
quit,antu  fades  me  &a- 
nem  ?  Jufiit  hominem 
ro  Hi  ££•  quadraginta 
plagas  infligi  />r<?  qua^ 
dragiiiia  conQiiatis  cap~ 
tatis. 

Phylyth.  Non  eft  tu* 
tum,utaudiot\uderecum 
regibus  facet  its  ;  quem- 
admodum  enim  leones 
/rar^/j^nonnunquam 
placide  I'ricant:,  i<dt?n% 
ubl  iubitum  eji,  funt  le-  'fellow  lies  dead 
ones,  et  .collufcr  jacet.  ner  kingsfavor, 
Ibidem  reges  favent. 
Sed  acferam  fabulum 
non  di/jimikm  tuee  .  fa- 
bula^,  ffg  recedamus  in- 
terim a  Ludovico,  cui 
<?r<7/  pro  delcclamento 
Jallere  hiaates  corvos. 
Acceperat  do  no  al.icun- 
de  decent  millia  corono- 
torum.  Qooties  amem 
nova  pecunia  obtigit 
principltms %07hnes  offi- 


It  is  not  fafe,  as    /  /^&r,  ta 


play  &>2*M  kings  in  waggery  : 
Jir  as  lions  c^er  themfelves 
fometimes  quietly  to  one  tha 
rubs  them,  the fame,  when  M<?) 
ptcafe,  are  lions, ana  their  play, 
In  like  j nan- 
But  /  »i/i 
£nz/£"  a  ftory  »0/  unlike  yoUi 
ftory  a  ^/?£/  &;£  w<y  ??0/  depart 
in  the  mean  time  from  Lewis, 
to  whom  zV  a/dij  a  diver fion  ta 
deceive  gaping  crows.  He  had 
received  as  aprefent  from  fome- 
bcdy,  ten  thoufand  crowns* 
But  as  often  as  new  money 
has  come  in  to  princes,  all  the 
officers  hunt  for  it,  and  endeav- 
or to  catch  lome  part  of  the 
priz£,  77wY  did  not  efcape 
ciarii 


CONVlviUM  FABULOSUM. 


101 


ciarii  venantur,  et  cap- 
tant  aliquam  partem 
'Ipnedae.  Idnon  iugic- 
ibat  Ludovicum.  Cum 
ligitur  ea  pecunia  £*- 
\promta  effet  in  men  fa, 
I  g'wtf  magis  invitaret 
f  fpem  omnium,  fie  "/cc#- 
/ar  £/?  circumftantibus. 
0tid9  an  non  videor 
#0£?j  opulentus  ffic  ? 
Ubi  colic cabimus  tan- 
tam  r/f/w  pecunia  ?  Eft 
donatiha,  convenit  do- 
na ri  vict /Jim.  Ubi  nunc 
flint  amici%  quibus  afe- 
fe<?  ytojiiis  officiis  in 
titicf  Adfint  w«  pri- 
ufquam  Aft  thefaurus 
ejfluat,  Ad  hanc  vo- 
cem  permulti  accurrere, 
nemo  non  fperahat  &/r- 
yw  7  df  fi  b  i .  •  C«7»  re  x  znr* 
dijftt  aliquem  inhibit* 
tern  maxime,  et  jam  de- 
vorantem  pecuniarn  oc~ 
ulis,  converfus  adeixm, 
inquit,  amice,  quid  tu 
narras  ?  I  tie  com  mem - 
orabat/?  aluifle  regios 
f  al  cones  diu  f u  m  m  a 
fide,  nee  fine  gravibus 
impendiis ,  •  All  us  ad  - 
ferebat  aliud  ;  quifque 
exaggtrabid  fuum  qffi- 
cium  verbis,   quantum 

I  2 


hems.     When   therefore  that 
money  Atf^f  £^?2  drawn  out  up 
on  the  table,  that  he  might  raijc 
the  more  the  hgpes  of  all, thus  /*£ 

j^0/£e  to  them  Handing  about 
him.      What,  do  not  I  feem  to 

you  a  rich  king  ?  Vvherejhalt 
we  difpofe  of  fo  great  a  quanti- 
ty of  money  ?  It  is  given,  it  is 

fit  it  be  given  agamJ  Where 
now  are  my  friends,  to  v;hom  / 
am  indebted  for  their  fervices 
to  we  ?  Let  them  come  now, 
before  this  treafure  be  gone. 
Upon  this  faying  a  great  many 
came  in,  every  body   hoped  for 

fomething  to    himfelf.      When' 
thekingy^^;  one  gaping  at  it 
v  e  r  y  m  u  c h  a  nd  n  o  w  devour  2  ng 
the  money  with  his  eyes,  being 

:  turned  to  him,  he  fays/friend, 

■  what  do  you  fay  ?  He  hld,that 
he  had  maintained  the  king's  s 
hawks  a  long  lime  with  great 
faith  fulnefs,  and  not  without 
great  -'-charges.-  Another  alledgi. 
ed  another  thing  ;  every  man 
magnified  his  office  by  words 
as  much  as  ho  could.  The 
king  heard  c/Zkindly,  {i?id  ap-  ' 
proved  of  thefpeuh-oi  every 

1  one.  •     This  confultation  was 
continued  for  'a  long  time,  that  ' 
he  might  torment /v?j/7J- «2//  the 
longer  &*&A  A<?^  and  fear.  The 

firfl   chancellor  jhod    among  : 
poterai  * 


XC2 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


poterat.  Rex  audiebat 
cmnes  benigne  et  com- 
probabat  orationem  fixi- 
guloruiii.  Hcec  con- 
iultatio  dilata  efi  in 
longum  tempus,  quo 
torqueret  omnes  dlutius 
fpe  metuque  primus 
cancellarius  aflabat  in- 
ter eos  :  nam  j.u Herat, 
et  huvc  acciri.  Ii  pru- 
de ntior  cater  is,  non 
praedicabaty^tf  cjftcia, 
led  agebat  fpe£latorem 
fabula.  Tandem  rex 
«onverfus  ad  hunc  in- 
tuit, quid  narrat  meus 
cancellarius  ?  Ilk  fo- 
lus  peti^  nihil,  nee prvz- 
<iicat J'ua  officio...  Ego, 
inquit  cancellarius,  ac- 
cept plus  a  regia  be  nig- 
nit  ate,  quam  promerw 
erim  ;  nee  fum  rnagis 
Jolicitus  de  ulia  re, 
quam  utrefpondeamxt- 
gise  munificentia  in  me, 
tantum  apefl  ut  veiim 
flagitare  plura.  Turn 
rex  inquit,  unus  igitur 
omnium  non  eges  petu- 
nia ?  Tua  benignitas, 
inquit  alter.  j#tf2,  prajli- 
tit  ne  egerem.  /^  rex 
verfus  ad  a!io&  inquit, 
&&  rgtf/wmixiagnificen- 


them  ;  for  he  had  ordereciAmp 
alfo  to  be  called.  Her  more 
prudent  ^arc  the  rejf,  did  not 
extol  hisfervices,  but  acled  the 
fpe&ator  of  this  play.  At  laft 
the  king  being  turned  to  hi?ny 
{zy$,w7iat  fays  my  chancellor  ? 
He  alone  afksfor  nothing,  nor 
does  he  extol  hisfervices.  1^ 
Jays  the  chancellor,  A^iye  /?- 
ceived  more  yrcw  the  royal 
bounty \  than  7  ^az/e  deferved  / 
nor  aw  /  more  concerned  about 
any  thing,  than  that  /  W2<ry  fl«- 
fwer  the  royal  bounty  towards 
mz,Jbfar  am  I  from  defiring 
to  afk  more..  Then  ^<?  &'/?£ 
fays,  do  you  alone  therefore  of 
all  not  want  money  ?  Your, 
bounty,  Jays  the  other,  has  Al- 
ready Jecured  me  from  want- 
ing. There  the  king  bang 
turned  to  the  other s,Jays,  tru 
ly  /  am  the  mo  ft  magnificent 
of  all  kings,  who  have  fo  rich 
#  chancellor.  Here  Atfjte  was 
kindled  more  in  all,  M#/  i 
would  come,  to  pafs,  that  th 
money  \tould  be  diftributed  to 
the  refl,  feeing  he  de  fired  noth 
ing.  When  the  king  had 
played  in  this  manner,  long  e«. 
nough,  he  forced  the  chanceL 
lor  to  take  zUthat.  fum  heme. 
And  by  and  by  being  turned 
to  the  reft  now  faid,  you  mufi 
tiflimus 


C0NV1V1UM  FABULOSUM.  103 

>!iffimus  omnium  regum,  wait,  fays  he>  another  occa- 
,ui  habeam  tarn  opu-  fioru 
-ntum  cancillarium. 
leic  fpes  accenfa  eft 
aagis  omnibus,  futu- 
'  umut  pecunia  diftrib- 
heretur  ceteris,  quan- 
iloquidem  ille  ambiebat 
\ihiL     Ubi  rex  lufiflet 

id   hunc    mo  dam    fatis,  .  ".     '     \    .    . 

liu,  coegit  cancellaji- 
jm,  ut  aujerret  totam 
:am  fammam  domum. 
Moxq  ;  verfus  ad  cac- 
:gt os  ja?Ji  mceftos,  vo- 
bis  ent  expeclanda,  in- 
quit,  alia  occafio. 

Phil,    Fortaffe  vide-        Perhaps  it  milt  appear  flat 
friiur    frigidius,     quod    zvhic h  I  am  going  to  tell, wh ere' 
fum  narraturus  vproin-  fore  1  bar  thefujpicion  of  evil 
ie     deprecor  fufpicio-    deceit,  or  roguery,    that  I  may 
\nem  mali  doli   fucive  \    not  Jeem  to  have  fought immu- 
ne videar   ambiffe   im-    nity  on  purpofe.      A    certain 
munitatem deinduflria.    man  went  to  the    fame    Lewis, 
Quidam  adiit   eundem    defiring  that   he   would  order 
Ludovicum,   petens   ut    an  office,  which  by  chance  was 
juberet    munus,     quod    vacant  in  that  dijtric7,m  which 
/<?/7<?vacabat  in  eo  pago,    he  lived,  to  be  conferred  upon 
in  quo  habitabat,wan[-    him..    The  king,  having  heard 
ferri  in  ipfum.      Rex,,   his  petition, .  anfwered  readily, 
>auditafeutione,.rfpon-   you  will  da  nothing.       The  pe- 
dit  expedite,  effices  ni-    titioner  likewife  prefently  hav- 
hil.    Petitor ■  etiam  mox    ing  given  thanks  to  the    king, 
aclis  grains   regi    dif    departed.     The    king  gather- 
cejfet.      Rex,   colligens    ing  from  his    very    look,   that 
ex ipfo  fronte,  effe   ho-    he,  was  a  man  by  no    means  of 

mincm 


i04 


CONV1V1UM  FABULOSUM. 


minem  non  omnino  fm- 
iflri  ingenii,  fufpicans 
que  ilium  non  intellex- 
iffe  quod  refpondiffet, 
jubet  cum  revocari. 
Redit.  Turn  rex  in- 
quit,  intelligebas  quid 
refponderim  tibi  f  In- 
tellexi.  Quid  igitur 
dixi  ?  Me  efftclurum 
nihil.  Cur  igitur  age- 
bas  gratias  ?  Ouoniam, 
inquit,  eft  quod  agam 
domi  :  proinde  perfe- 
cuturus  eram  ancipi- 
/<?#*' fpem  Azc}meo  mag- 
no  incommodo  :  nunc 
interpreter  beneficium' 
negafie  beneficium  cito 
meque  lucraturn  quic- 
quid  eram  perditurus, 
ft  laclatus  fuifiem  vdna 
/be.  Ex  eo  refponfo 
rex  conje&urans  mini- 
Tnefegnem  hominem,  u- 
bi  percunftatus  eflet 
pauca.  Habebis,  inquit, 
quod  petis,  qua  agas 
inihi  gratias  bis  ;  fi- 
mulque  verfus  ad  cjfi- 
ciarios,  expediantur 
dipiomata,  huic,  inquit,. 
fine,  mora,'  ne  hscreat 
heic  diu Juo  damno. 

Eu.   Non  rieeft  quod 
referenx'  de  Ludovico, 


dull  parts,  and  fufpefting  that 
he  did  not  undeiftand  what  he 
had  aniwered  him,  orders  him 
to  be  called  back.  He  returns. 
Then  the  king  /ays,  did  yoi 
underftand  what  I  anfwefec 
you  ?'  I  did  underftand.  What 
then  did  I  fay  ?  That  Ifhould 
effetl  nothing.  Why  therefore 
did  you  give  thanks  ;  becaufe, 
fays  he,  J  have  fometJiing  td 
do  at  home,  and  therefore 
(hould  have  purfued  doubtful 
hopes  here  to  my  great  lofs  ^ 
now  I  conftrue  it  as  a  kindnefs 
to  deny  the  kindnefs  quickly, 
and  that  I  have  gained  what- 
foever  I  fhould  have  loft,  if  1 
had  been  fed  by  vain  hopes. 
By  that  anfwer  the  king  guefT» 
ing  him  to  be  no  duttman, 
when  he  afked  him  a  Jew 
things,  you  (hall  ha^e,  quoth 
he,  what  you  defirc\  that  you 
may  give  me  thanks  twice  : 
And  at  the  fame  timey  turning.. 
tO'the  officers,  let  the  patents 
be  made  readyyW  him,  faiih  • 
he,  without  delay,  that  he  may 
not  flay  here,  long  Jo  his   loj}.-> 


I  want  not fomething  to  re- 
late of  Lewis,  but  I  had  rather 


CONVIV1UM  FABULOSUM.  105 

fed  malo  de  nojlro  tell  of  our  Maximilian  :  TVho7 
vMaximiliano.  Qui  ut  as  he  ufed  not  to  bury  his  mow 
\nequaquam  folitus  eji  ey,  fo  he  was  very  merciful  to 
elefodere  pecunia?n,  ita  thofe  who  had/pent  their  efiatet 
erat  clememiffimus  in  fo  they  were  recommended  by  a 
\eos  qui  decoxerant,  mo-  title  of  nobility.  Being  dt  fir- 
do  commendarentur  ti-  ous  to  help  a  certain  young 
tulo  nobilitatis.  Cum  ?»tf#  of  this  fort  of  men,  he 
vellet  opitulari  cuidam  committed  tohim*  deputation, 
juveni  ex  hoc  genere  that  he  mould  demand  a  hun* 
hominum,  mandavit  il-  dred  thoufand  Jlorins  from  a 
li  legationem,  ut  pete-  certain  city  upon  I  know  not 
vet  centum  miWia jlore-  what  title.  But  the  title  was 
\norum  a  quadam  avi-  fuck,  that  2/ any  thing  a^j  0^- 
^^  nefcio  quo  tituio.  tained  by  the  dexterity  ^/  /^<s 
Titulus.  autem  erat  /#-  deputy,  it  might  ^e  reckoned  as 
&r,  ut  /f  quid  impetra-  clear  gain.  TXe  deputy  got 
/&w  f^?£  dexter itate  <fe-  j£/^y  thoufand,  A<?  retumedCze- 
gati  poflet  duci  pro  lu-  far  thirty.  Caefar  being  glad 
cro.  Lcgatus  extorfit  of  tins  unexpected  booty,  dif- 
quinquaginta  inillia,  miffed  the  man,  inquiring 
reddidit  Casfari  trigiw  nothing  further.  In  the  mean 
ta.  Caefar  l&tus  in-  time  the  treafurcrs  and  audi- 
fperata  prceda  dimifit  tors  had fmelled  out,  that  more 
homine.ni,  inquirens  ni-  was  received  than  given  ZT^they 
hil  prasterea.  Interea  fpeak  to  Cafir,  that  he  would 
qusefuores  et  rationales  fend  for  the  man.  He  was 
olfeccrant  plus  accep-  fentjor,  comes  presently.  Then 
tumfuiffe  quam  exhibit  Maximilian  fays,  /  /zejr  that 
turn  :  interpellant  C<«r-  you  received  j£#y  thoufand. 
Jarem,  ut  accerferet  ho-  He  confe/ftd  it.  You  gave  in 
minem.  Accitus  eft  but  thirty.  He  confefed  that 
venit  illico.  Turn  too.  J^w  ^z^  give  an  ac- 
Maximilianus  inquit,  count,  fays  he.  He  promifed 
Audio  te  accepiiTe^i?2-  /^  would  do  it,  and  departed, 
auaginia  millia.  /tf^V  Again  w/krc  nothing  was  done^ 


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CONVIV1UM  FABULOSLWI. 


eft  :  Exhibuifti  non  ni^ 
Ji  triginta.      Faffus  eft 
et   hoc.     Reddendo,  ejl 
Yat\o,inquit.     Promifit 
fefaclurum,  et  difcejjit, 
Rurfum  cum  nihil  ejfet 
aclum,  offiaanis  inter- 
pellantibus,     revocatus 
eft.  Turn  Cozjar  inquit, 
7iuper)uh  us  es  reddere 
rationem.     MeminiAw- 
quit  ille,  et  fum  in  hoc, 
Caefar  fujpicans    ratio- 
nem  nondum    cffe  fat  is 
Jubduclam    ilii,    pajfus 
ejl  ilium  abire  jic.  Cum 
Jiceluderet,  ofliciarii  in- 
Jlabant        vehem  enter, 
cla??iitantes  non  eiTe  fe- 
rendum,    ut  ille  illude- 
ret  Caefari  ta??i  palam. 
Perfuadent^/accerfitus 
juberetur  exhibere  ra- 
tionem inibi,  ipfs  prce- 
Jentibus.     Cue  far  annu- 
ity    Accitus  venxt  iili- 
co,  nihil  tergiverfatus. 
Turn       Caefar     in  quit , 
nonnepollicitus  es   ra- 
tionem? Poliicitusfum; 
refpondit   ille.       Opus 
eit  jam,  inquit,  nee  eft 
locus  tergiverfandi  am- 
plius.     Ibi juvenis   in- 
quit  fat  dextre,  non  de- 
tre£to  rationemy  invic- 


the  officers,  fpeaking  to  Caefar, 
lie  was  recalled.  Then  Ccefar 
fays,  /tf^Vy  you  were  ordered 
to  give  an  account.  /  remem- 
ber %  fays  he,  and  I  am  about 
it.  Caefar  Ju j 'peeling  that  his 
account  was  not  yet  iufficiently 
drawn  up  by  him,  he  jujfered 
him  ta  g#  away  jo.  When  he 
thus  evaded,  the  officers  prejf- 
ed  the  matter  mightily,  crying 
out  that  it  was  not  to  be  borne 
with,  that  he  fliould  play  upon 
Caefar  fo  openly.  They  per-" 
fuade  him,  that  being  fent  for, 
hejfiould  be  ordered  to  give  in 
his  account  there,  whiljl  they 
were  by.  Caefar  agrees.  Be- 
ing fent  for,  he  comes  quickly, 
not  at  all  declining  it.  Then 
Caefar  fays,  did  not  you  prom- 
ife  an  account  f  1  did,  replied 
he.  It  muft  be  juft  now,  fays 
he,  nor  is  there  room  for  de- 
clining it  any  longer.  There 
the  young  man  fays  dextroijly 
enough,  I  do  not  refute  an  ac- 
count, mod  invincible  Ccrjar ; 
but  /  am  not  very  much  /killed 
in  fuck  accounts,  as  who  never 
gave  any  in  :  tkofe  who///  by 
are  very  Jk'iljul  in  fuck  ac- 
counts,,?/  I  fee  but  once  how 
they  manage  fuck  accounts,  / 
Jliall  imitate  them  eafily.  /  de- 
Jire  you  would  command  them. 
tiflirne 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


107 


tifllme  Ccefar  ;  verum 
.  non  fum ad modum  peri- 
;  tus  hujufmodi  ratio- 
num,  ut  qui  nunquam 
reddiderim  :  IJli  qui 
nffdent  funt  peritiffmi 
talium  rationum  :y£vi- 
dero  velfemel  quemad- 
modum  Hit  tra&ent 
hujufmodi  rationes,  ego 
imitabor  facile.  Rogo 
jubcas  illos  vel  edere  ex- 
cmplum,  videbunt  me 
docilem.  Cafar  fenfit 
diclum  hominis,  quod 
hi  non  intelligebant,  in 
,quos  dicebatur  ;  acfu- 
bridens  inquit,  narras, 
^erum,  et  pollulas  ce- 
quu?n.  Ita  dimifit  ju- 
venem  :  Subindicabat 
enim  illos  folere  redde- 
re  rati one m  Caefari, 
que?nad?nodum\pk  red- 
diderat,  nimirum,w/ bo- 
na pars  pecunice  rema- 
neret  penes  ipfos. 

■Le.Nunc  ejl  tempus, 
nt  iabula  defcendat  ab 
equis  adafuxos,  ut  ai- 
unt%  a  regibus  ad  Anto- 
nium  facrificum  Lova- 
nienfem,  qui fuit  in  de- 
iichs  Philippo  copno- 
mento  bono.  Ferun- 
tur  multa   hujus    viri. 


but  to  fet  me  an  example,  they 
(hall  fee  me  tractable.  Cafar 
underftood  the  faying  of  the 
man,  which  they  did  not  im- 
derfland,  again  ft  whom  it  was 

/aid  :  andfmiling  fays,  you  fay 
true,  and  demand  what  is  rea* 

fbnable.  So  he  dij miffed  the 
young  fellow.  For  he  inti- 
mated that  they  iiftd  to  give 
account  to  Cacfar,  as  he  had 
given  his,  to  wit,  that  a  good 
part  of  the  money  fhould  re- 
main with  them. 


Now  it  is  time  that  the  fio- 
ryflwuld  defend  from  horfes 
to  affes,  as  they  fay,  from  kings 
to  Anthony  the  prieft  of  Lo- 
vai/i,  who  was  infavpr  with 
Philip,  by  furname,  the  good. 
There  art  reported  many  things 
of  this  ?nan,  either  phajantly 
laid,    or  jocofely   done,     but 

vel 


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CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


ve4  jacunde  difla,  vel 
jocokjacla,  fed  pier a- 
que  fordidiora.  Nam 
folebat  condire  plerof- 
que  fuos  lufus  quodam 
unguento,  quod  won  fo- 
natadmodum  eleganter, 
Jed  olet  pejus.  Deli- 
gam  unum  exmundior- 
ibus.  Invitaret  unum 
atque  alterum  bellum 
homunculum  obvios 
forte  in  via.  Cum  re- 
diiffet  domum,  reperit 
culinzmfngidam.  Nee 
erat  nummus  in  loculis, 
quod  nequaquam  erat 
infolens  illi.  Heic  e- 
rat  opus  celeri  confilio. 
Subanx.it  fe  tacitus,  et 
ingreffus  culinam  fee- 
neratoris,  quicum  Mi 
erat  familiaritas,  quod 
ageret  jrequenter  cum 
illo,  famula  digreffa, 
fubduxit  unam  ex  cene- 
is  ollis,  una  cum  car* 
nibus  jam  coaBis,  ac 
defer  eb  at  teftam  vefile, 
domum  ;  dat  coquae, 
jubet  carries  et  jus  pro- 
tinus  effundi  in  aliam 
ficlilem  ollam  fimulq  : 
ollam  faineratoris  de- 
fricari  donee  niteret. 
E0   fafto,  mittit  pue- 


mdfl  of  them  nafty.  For  \\\ 
ufed  /{?  feafon  mod  of  hi: 
mirth  with  a  certain  ointment 
which  does  not  found  very 
neatly,  but  fmelis  zvor/e.  J 
will  choofe  one  of  the  cleaner, 
He  had  invited  one  and  anoth- 
er pretty  fellow  that?net  him  by 
chance  z/z  theflreet.  When  Ad 
Was  returned  home,  he  finds 
the  kitchen  cold.  Nor  was 
there  any  money  2'w  his  pockety 
which  was  not  unufual  with 
him.  Hert  was  need  of /pee* 
dy  contrivance.  He  withdrew 
himfelf  fdently,  and  entering 
the  kitchen  of  an  ufurer,  with 
whom  he   had  a    familiar  *ac- 

;[uaintance,  becaufe  he  dealt 
requently  with  him,  /Ae  wtf?^ 
being  gone  afide,  he  took  off 
one  of  the  brazen  pots,  togethe 
with  theflejli  now  boiled,  an 
carried  it  covered  under  hi. 
coat  home  ;  g/t^j"  zV  to  the 
cook  maid,  orders  the  flefh 
tf>?^  broth  immediately  to  be 
poured  out  zwto  another  earth 
em  pot,  <zW  at  the  fame  time 
the  pot  of  the  ufurer  to  be  rub 
h*d,  till  it  was  bright.  That 
being  done,  he  fends  a  boy  to 
*/z£  ufurer  :  who  leaving  it  in 
pawn,  fliould  borrow  two 
drachms  oi  the  ufurer, buiffiould 
take  a  note,  that  fhould  teftifv 

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CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


iog 


am  ad  }ceneratorems 
jui  depofitopignore,  fa- 
nat  rmituo  duas  drach* 
nas  afaneratorejed  ac~ 
r.ipiat  chirographurn, 
jfuod  teftaretur  talemol- 
T|am  rmjfam  ad  ipfum. 
W&nerator  non  agnof- 
pens  ollam,  utpote  de- 
Yrtflam  ac  nitentem,  re- 
:ipit  pignus,  dat  ckiro- 
rraphumtet  numerate- 
:umam.  Eapecuniapuer 
\rmt  vi num.  It  a  prof- 
Deflum  eft  conznvio. 
Tandem  cum  prandium 
2ppararetur  fqeneratori, 
ma  defiderata  eft.  Heic 
;iurgium  adverfus  co~ 
quam.  Cum  ea  grava- 
retur, .  afjirmavit  con- 
ftanter  neminem  fuifle 
°o  die  in  culina  prater 
Antonium.  Videbatur 
improbum  fufpicari  hoc 
de  facnjico.  Tandem 
? turn ejl  ad  ilium.  Ex- 
tol or  at  u?n  an  olia  effet 
kipud  illuviy  at  ??&//#  re- 
perta  eft.  Quid  mul- 
Us?  Q\\* Jlagitata  ejl 
jab  \\\o  ferio.  qaodfoius 
ingrefTus  effet  culinam 
quo  tempore  defiderata 
°JL  tttcfaftisymmp. 
fiffe  mutuo  quandam 
ollam,/^aiiam  remifif 
In  ilii  unde  furnpferat. 
Cum  illi  pernegarent  id, 
et  contentio  incaluiffet% 

K 


that  fuck  a  pot  zvas  feiti  to  him  a 
The  ufurer  not  knowing  the 
pot,  as  being  rubbed  and  bright, 
takes  M*  pawn,  gives  Me  /?<?^, 
and  £<zj/j  the  money.  With  thai 
money  the  boy  buys  wine.  Thus 
provifion  was  madej^r  ajeaJL 
At  la  ft  when  dinner  was  pre- 
paring for  the  ufurer,  the  pot 
was  miffing,  upon  this  there 
was  a  brawl  with  the  cook  maid» 
When  Jhe  was  grievoully 
charged,  Jhe  affirmed  con  (rant ly 
that  nobody  had  been  that  day 
in  the  kitchen  befides  Anthony. 
It  feemed  wicked  to  J uf peel  this 
?/#  prieji.  At  length  they  went 
to  him.  Searched  whether  //z<? 
/wf  was  a>?Y/£  him,  but  ?2^>/^  was 
found.  What  needs  many 
word 9  ?  The  pot  was  demand- 
ed of  him  z>2  earneft,  becaufe  he 
alone  had  entered  the  kitchen,  at 
what  time 2*  a^j  mfjing.  He 
conjrjjed  he  borrowed  a  certain 
pot,  Z>^  which  he  had  fint  back 
to  him  of  whom  he  had  it.  When 
they  denied  it,  a^  the  conten- 
tion ^T^a/  warm,&\\\\ionyJbmc 
witneiTes  being  taken  to  ium% 
fays,yfe  how  dangerous  it  is  to 
deal  with  werc  of  tbele  times 
without  a  note  :  an  aflion  of 
th [ft  would  be  almoft  laid  a- 
gain  ft  me,  unlets  /  had  the 
hand  of  the  ufurer  ;  and  he  pro- 
duced the  note.  The  roguery 
was  under  flood  ;  ihejtory  was 
fpread  through  the  whole  coun- 
try with  a  great  deal  oi  laughs 
Anton  lus^ 


J  10 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


Antomius,  aliquot,  tefti- 
bus  ad/nbitis/mqyxh,  vi- 
de te  quam  pen  cut  of  urn 
eft  agere  cum  komimbus 
horurn  temporum  line 
ckirographo  J  atliofur- 
ti  properr;odum  inten- 
deretur  rnihji  m  habe* 
rem  manum  fanerato- 
ris,  et  prctulit  lyngra- 
pham.  Dolus  intc  Hec- 
tus  eft  ;  fabula  difiipa- 
ta  e  ft  per  tot  am  regio- 
nem  cum  magno  rifu, 
ollam  oppignoipatam  ip- 
ficujmerat.  Homines 
favent  hujufniodi  do  lis 
libentius,  Ji  commiffi 
lint  in  odiofas  perfonas, 
prxfeuvm  eps  qui  folent 
imponere  aliis. 

A.  Nae  tu  apperuifti 
nobis  mare  babularum, 
norninato  Antonio  : 
Jed  refer  am  dunraxat  w 
nam,  earn  que  brevem, 
quam  audivi  nuperri- 
ine.  Aliquot  belli  ho* 
munculi,  ut  dicunty  agi- 
tabant  convivium  fimul, 
quibus  nihil  in  vita  pri- 
1.1  s  quam  ridere.  Inter 
has  erat  Ant  on  i  us,  atquc 
item  alter,  et  ipfe  Cele- 
bris 2,7  hoc  genere  lau- 
dis,-?/  velut  amulus  An* 
tonii.  Porro  quemad- 
modum  inter  pkilofo- 
pkos,  fi  quando  conve- 
niuat,  quefliunculx  la- 


ter Mfl/  M<?  /w/  was  pawned  A. 
Az;rc  whofe  ?/  was.  Men  favor 
fuch  /ncij  the  more  willingly, 
?/they  are  pra&ifed  upon  odi- 
ous perfons,  efpecially  thole 
who  are  wont  te  impoje  upon 
others. 


Truly  you  have  opened  to  us 
a  fea  of /lories,  by  naming  An 
thony  :  But  I  will  relate  only 
one,  and  that  ajliort  one,  which 
/  heard  very  lately.  Some 
pretty  little  fellow  st  as  they  cal 
them,  kept  afeajl  together,  with 
whom  nothing  in  Ife  is  better 
than  laughing.  Among  thtfe 
was  Anthony,  and  hkewife  an 
other %  he  al/o  famous  in  this 
fort  of  praife,  and  as  it  were 
rival  of  Anthony.  Moreover 
among  pkilofophers,  \i at  any 
time  they  meet,  little  quejhons 
ufed  to  be  propefed  about  the 
things  of  nature,  fo  /2<?r<?  imme- 
diately a  queftion  arofe,  zy/jtf* 
part  of  men  was    $<?  0*0/?  hon- 

leut 


CONVIVIUM  FABULOSUM. 


lit 


lent  proponi  de  rebus 
naturct,  ita  heic  ftatim 
qucejiio  nata  zft^quxnam 
pars  hominis  effet  ho- 
Jieftifjima.  Alius  divi- 
nabat  oculos,  alius  cor 
alius  cerebrum,  alius  i* 
tem  a  hud,  et  qui/que 
adferebat  rationem  fuse 
divinationis.  Antonius 
juflus  dicere  fententiam, 
dixit  os  videri  fibi  #<?- 
neftiffimam  partem  ^^z- 
7ii  urn f  et  addidit  nefcio 
y«a^  caufam.  jTa/?* 
ille  alter,  ne  quid  ipfi 
conveniret  cum  Anto- 
nio, refpondit,  earn  par- 
tem qua  fed  em  us  videri 
fibi  honeftiftimam.  Cum 
id?  videretur  ab/urdum 
omnibus,  attulit  hanc 
caufam,  quod  is  ducere- 
tur  vufgo  honorat'jjl- 
mus,  qui  primus  confi- 
dent, /20c  honoris  com- 
"petere  jfezftz  quarn  d'z.t- 
r^/.  Applaufum  eft 
£«*<;  fentejptiae,  ^  rifum 
eft  affutim.  Homo 
placuH  (ibi  de  hoc  ditlo, 
et  Antonius  vifus  eil 
'Z'ldus  in  eo  cerramine, 
Antonius  diflimulavit, 
fuz  non  detul^rar  />rz- 
wafw  laudem  hone/iatis 
on  ob  aiiudi  nifi  /yw<?^ 
fciret  ilium  velut  £?/;2Z/. 
/ww  fuse  gloria  nomina- 
tut  urn  diverfam  partem* 


orable.  One  guefjed  the  eyes, 
another  the  heart,  another  the 
brain,  another  likewife  anoth- 
er thing,  and  ejy<?r)/  <?/?<?  gave  £ 
raz/tf/jofhis  goefs.  Anthony 
being  ordered  /0  declare  his  o- 
pinion,    /ij'J  that   the    mouth 

Jeemtd  to  him  /A^  /720//  honora- 
ble part  (?/  a//,  and  he  added  I 
know  not  zz^tf/  reafon.  7%e# 
that  other,  that  he  might  not  in 
any  thing  agree  zvith  Anthony, 
anfwered  that  that  part  on 
which  we  fit  /eemed  to  him  #Kp 
1770/?  honorable.  When  that 
appeared  abfurd  to  all,  he gavz 
this  reafon,  that  he  was  reckon- 
ed  commonly  the  mojl  honora- 
ble, who  fir  ft  fat  down,  that  his 
honor  belonged  to  that  pari 
which  he  had  named.  They 
applauded  this  Opinion,  and 
laughed  heartily»  The  man 
was  pleafed  with  himlelffor 
this  faying,  and  Anthony  feem- 
ed'  conquered  in  that  difpute, 
Anthony  took  no  notice,  who 
h  d  not  given  i ht  chief  praife 
of  honor  ro  the  mouth  for  a??y 
thing  elfe,  but  //m*  he  knew 
that  he  as  the  rival  of  his  glo- 
ry, zv oidd  name  the  quite  con- 
trary /;^r/.  Alter  ./wafc  d^ys, 
when  both  of  them  afcr*  invited 
again /0  the  fame  feu  ft.  An- 
thcriy  entermks  finds  lit  j  nW 
talking  a^/z  fome  p7&?rj,wliilft 

Jupper  is  getting  ready,  cW 
turning  his  back  of  him,    foitf 

,/j  a  routing  tart  fc/^i  if)kjfe« 

Poft 


112 


COMVlVIUxM  FABULOSUM. 


Pofl  aliquot  diess  cum 
uterque  vocal  us  J/etnir- 
fus  ad  idem  convivrum, 
Antonius  ingrefjus  or* 
fendh  cemulum  confab- 
ulautem  cum  aliquot  a* 
his,  dum  cctna  adorna- 
tur,  tt  averfus  o  mi  jit 
alarum  ventriscrepiturn 
antefaciem  alterius.  li- 
te indignatus  inquit,  a- 
bi  fcurra,  ubinam  didi- 
€ijh  iftos  mores  ?  Turn 
Antonius  inquit  etiam 
indignaris?  Si  falutaf- 
fern  U  ore,  rejalutajjes 
nunc  Jaluto  te  parte 
corporis,  vel  te  judice% 
hone fti (lima  omnium,  et 
vocor  fcurra.  Sic  An- 
tonius ? ecuptravit  gtori- 
arn  anvffam  prius.  /)<*- 
imj<j  omnes,  fupereft  ut 
judex  pernunciet. 

Ge.  Faciam  id,  Ted 
72<?/z  priufquam  quijque 
ebiberit fuum  cyathum. 
En  aufpicor,  fed  /&/?tfi" 
in  fabula. 

P.  Levinus  Panaga- 
\hus  adfert  baud  laevum 

L.  QuH  tffifi/'»»  eft  in- 
ter tamlepidos  conger- 
rones  ? 

Po.Quid  abud  ?  cer- 
latum  eft  fabulis.  donee 
lupus  in'ervenires. 

Le.  Hue  igitur  ad- 
fum,  ut  peiftcidrn/tf^- 


of    the  o'.her.     He  being  mad  I 

Jays,  get  you  gone  you  rudt\ 
drolij where  d/dyou  learn  \\\tit\ 
manners  ?  Then  Anthony  Jays  A 
what,  are  you  angry  ?  If  I  had 
faluted  you  with  my  mouth, 
you  would  have  faluted  me  a- 
gain,  now  I  Joint  t  you  wTith  a 
part  of  the  body,  even  you  £<?- 
ing  judge,  the  mofl  honorable 
of  all,  and  /  #>?!  called  a  rude 
droll.  ^tfJ"  Anthony  recover- 
ed the  glory  /0//  before.  ffV 
have  atljaid,  it  remains  Mo| 
the  judge  pronounce  fentence. 


I  will  do  it,  but  770/  before 
every  man  drinks  off  his  glajs. 
Lo  /  begin,  but  f/ze  a;'^  in  the 
table. 

Levinus  Panaga&us  brings 
no  unlucky  omen» 

What  A/W  tarn  </0tf<?  among 
y^c/^  pretty  companions. 

What  effi  ?  we  have  been 
contending  injtories,  till  you 
as  a  wolf  came  in. 

Hither  therefore  I  am  come 
tkatlmdy  fintfh  the  jarce :  ! 


CHARON,  nj 

lam ';  Volo   vos    omnes  defire  y<^  a// totake  a  tfceolog- 

prandere  prandium  the-  ical  dinner  a/zVA  me  tomorrow, 
ologicum  apudm*.  eras. 

Ge. PromittisScyfA*-        You  promife  us   a  Scylnian 

turn  tonvivium.  feaft.     '  //>,,- 

L.  NiG/a/^zraiwihoc  Unlels  yctii  cflw/g/J  that  this 
Jwffe  jucundius     vobis    rvas  more plea  fan  t  to  you  than 

fdbiloib  convivio,  non  the  fabulous  feaft,  /  do   not  re* 

recufo    daie  poeoas    in  fufe  to  fuffer  punifhment^^/p- 

cxna.     Nihil  jucundius  per.  Nothing  is   more   pleafant 

quam   cum  nuges  trac-  than  when    trifles  are   handled 

tamur/?rz<?.  Jmoujly. 


CHARON. 
Charon,  Genius,  Alaftor» 


C 


QUID  ita  prop*-    ^ X  7HY  do  you  hapten  Jo  re- 
rtfjgeftiens,^-      VV    joicing  Ala/lor  ? 
laftor  t 

Al.  O  Charon,  opor-  O  Charon,  you  come  in  good 
tune  tu  quidem.  "Fro-  time  indeed,  I  was  haitenuig 
pei  abam  ad  te.  to  \ou. 

Ch  Quid  novae  rei  M      What  news  ? 
A.  Feto  nuntium  Fit-      .  I  bring  >?<?syj  that  will  bzvery 
turum    lrt][Jimum     tibi  joyful  to  you  and  Proferpine. 
Profrrpinaequ*>. 

Ch  EfTer  ?£-//« r  quod  Declare  M^/fc  what  )<?w  bring, 
fers,  etexdnerto  te.  and  unload  your ft If  ? 

Al.  Yuux: gffjenint  fu-        The    furies  ^ai#  dfow*    their 
u:n  negotiuixi //(?//  tfttjtei    buiiatfs  no  /^diligently    than 

xiavner 

K2 


>14 


CHARON, 


riaviter  quam  feliciter, 
mfecerunt  omnes  partes 
oibis  tartareis  malis 
diffidiis,  bellis.  latroci- 
«its,  peftilenttis,  adeo 
uty&mfint  plane  calvcz% 
emiflis  colubris,  et  c- 
bambultnt  exhauftae  ve- 
neniSi  quaerentes  quic* 
quid  viperarum  atque 
efpidum  eft  ufquam, 
quando  fmt  t am  glabra 
quam  ovum,  et  non  ha* 
bent  pilum  in  capite ,nec 
qu?dquamefih™c\s  fucci 
in  pttlore.  Promde  tu 
fac  appares  cymbam  ac 
remos:  mox  enim  tcmta 
multitude)  umbrarum 
ventura  eft,  ut  verear 
ne  non  fufficias  tranf 
mittendis  omnibus. 

Ch.  Ik&nonjugerant 
nos. 

Al.  Unde   refcibas  ? 

Ch  OfTa  ptrtuhrat 
ante  biduum* 

Al.  Nihil  <//  velocius 
ilia  dea.  Sed  ^wa'igitur 
tucfiffas  hie  ? 

Ch.  Ita  nimirum  res 
ferabat.  Profeflus  fum 
kuc,ui  compararem  mi- 
hi  aliquam  validam  tri- 
remem,  nam  ?7^a-  cymba, 
jam  putns  vetuftate  a£ 
jfutjlis',  nonfufficerithu- 
i'c  opfjri ;  fi  funt  r/<?ra 
quae  0^2  narravit^aa'z- 
gaavn    quid   0ptf.f    erat 


happily,  they  have  infecled  <A\ 
the  parts  of  the  world  withheld 
ijh  evils,  quarrels,  wars,  rob* 
aeries,  pkgues,  Jo  that  nov 
they  are  quite  £<?/af,  having  dif- 
charged  their  fnakes,  and  walk 
about  exhaufted  of  their  po> 
fonsy  fe^king  zvhatfoever  vipers 
and  afps  there  are   any   wh  rer 

feeing  they  art  as  bare  as  an  egg9 
and  nave  not  a  hair  upon  their 
head,  nor  any  thing  of  effectual 
juice intheirbreaji.  Wherefore 
ak  ycu  fee  you  make  ready)  <?z«r 
^<?a/  and  ^u.rj  ;  for  by    and  by 

Jo  great  a  multitude  of  ghofis 
will  come,  Ma/  I  am  afraid  ti-Jl 
you  ftiould  not  be   fufficient  to 

ferry  them  all  over. 


Thofe  things  were  not  un- 
known to  us. 

From  whomhadyou heard them? 
OITa  brought  us  news  two 
days  ago, 

Nothing  is  fwiher  than  that 
goddefs.  But  why  then  do  you 
loHtr  here  ? 

So forlooth  t^e  matter  oblige 
ed  me.  I  came  Utther  that  / 
might  provide  myfeltyafftfitrong. 
galley .  for  fl&y  taa*,  now  rotten 
with  age,  «waf  patched  up,  W/ 
7?0/  be  fujfeent  for  this  work  : 
7/thofe  things  are  £r#«  which 
6 jf a  told,  although  what  Ri6d( 
was  there  of- Off  a  f  Th  *  thing 
*V/££f  obliges  niCffcr  I  have 
0^z  ? 


CHARON. 


**5 


)Jfa  ?    Res  ipfa   com- 
»eliit,  nam  feci  naulra- 
;ium. 
A).    Nimirum    totus 
•'i/hl/as,    fufpicabar    te 
jedire  c  balneo. 
I   <■  h.  I  mo  enatabam   e 
ijjitygia  palude. 
I  Al.  Ubi  reLquiflium- 
Iras  ? 

I   Ch.  Natant  cum  ra* 
vis. 

j    A  I.  Sed  quid  narravit 
Vfia  ? 

E  Ch.  Tres  monarchas 
|)rbis  ruere  in  mutuuai 
|:xitium  cap.tahbus  odi- 
|s.  N  c  ullam  partem 
frits  Chnjham  etfe  un 
mint m  a  fuiiis,  nam  illi 
?<?j  pertrahunt  o  nines 
'eliquqs  m  confortmm 
Drill.  Omnes  effe  te/i- 
Jg*j  anirnis,  z^  nemo 
p r/tf  cedere  alteri  ;  nee 
\Danum,  nee  Polonum, 
[jec  Scotum,  nee  i/^r<? 
iTurcam^i  in  olio  ;«?»#- 
frn  dira  ;  pejhltntiam 
fa^vire  ubique>  apud 
H*  [panes,  apud  Brnan 
nos-  apud  Italos,  apud 
IGallos,  Ad  hacc  noyam 
Ifotfra  natam  <?*  varietate 
lopinionuni,  ###  fie  vi- 
Itiavit  anirnos  omnium, 
.&/  (it  tf#//tf  finc'ra  «;«?- 
€fVza  ufquam,y£rf  frater 
diffidat  iratri,  8<rc  uxor 
iconvcriiat  cum  marito. 


been  fhipwrecked. 


Indeed  you  drop  all  over,  I 
fufpecled  you  were  returning 
Irom  the  hath. 

Nay,  indeed,  I  [warn   out  oi 
the  Stygian  Lake. 
Where  did  you  leaved  fouls? 

They   are  fwimming   with 
the  frogs. 

Bm  what  fad  Offaf 

That  three  menarchs  of  the 
world  wre  rujhmg  upon  mu- 
tual deflru&ion  with  capital 
hitreds.  And  that  no  part  of 
the  Chri/lian  world  was  free 
irom  the  furies,  for  thofe  three 
draw  a/7  ihe  reft  into  a  //tare  of 
the  war.  Tint  they  all  were  2/" 
y^c/5  minds,  that  no  one  would 
yield  /0  another  J  neither  M£ 
Dane,  nor  M^  Ptf/^,  n<  r  the 
Scot,  nor  zWe  d  the  Tu»k  ztftfJ' 
at  quiet  ;  that  they  attempted 
di final  things  ;  that  the  plague 
raged  every  where,  among  the 
Spaniards,  among  the  Britons^ 
among  the.  Itahans,  among  the 
French.  Be  fides  that  there  was 
a  new  plague  rifen  from  the 
variety  of  opinions,  which  has 
fo  vitiated  the  minds  ot  all,  that 
there  is  no  fir  cere  fit en dflnp 
any  where,  but  brother  djirujts 
brother,  nor  does  the  wife  a- 
gree  with  her  hu/band.  There 
is  hqpe,  that  a  noble  definition 


no 


CHARON. 


Spes<  eft,  mngnificain 
pern{c\emho?ninu?n  naf- 
cituram  hinc  quoque 
dim,  fi  res  pervenerit 
a  Unguis  et  calamvs  ad 
mantis. 

Al.  OiTa  narravit 
omnia  '  h&c  veriffime; 
nam  ?pfe  viui  plura  his 
cculis,  afiiduus  comes 
et  adjvtor  furiarum, 
quoz  nullo  tempore  dt~ 
clararunt  ie  magis  dig- 
nasjuo  nomine. 

Ch.  Atqui  periculum 
eft,  ;z<?  quis  dcemon  ex- 
oriatur,  ^*n  adhortetur 
fubito  ad  pacem  ;  ^/  an- 
imi  ?norta/iu?n  funt 
?nutabiles.  Nam  audio 
eiTe,  quendam  polygra- 
ph u  m  a  £  #  a?  juperos  q  u  i 
?70tt  definit  infefiai  i  <^/- 
/#>»  calamo,  et  adhor- 
tari  ad  pacem. 

A!.    I  lie  nanit  fardis 
jampridem.  OYimJcrip- 
Jit  querimoniam  profli- 
gates pacis,   nunc  fcnp- 
fit    epitapkium     eidem 
extinclcz.        Sunt     alii 
contra,  qui juvant  nof- 
trani    rem  non    minus 
quam  ipfas  furia3. 
Ch.  Quinam  ifti  ? 
Al.Sum  quadavi  an. 


of  men  will  arikfYvm  hence  tc 
hereafter,  if  the  thing  comi 
fromhon^ues  and  quills  to  ham 


OfTa  /p/i  all  theft  things  ver 
truly  ;  for  I  j&t;  more  &/$ 
thefe  eyes,  being  a  conftar 
companion  2nd  aj/i/lant  of  tl 
furies,  which  at  no  time 
dared  themfelves  772<?r<?  won! 
of  their  name. 

But  ^<?  danger  is,  lejt 
dcemon  fhould  ftart  up,  tha 
fhould  exhort  thtmfuddenly 
peace  ;  and  the  minds  of  mot 
tals  are  changeable.  For 
/*££ r  there  is  <s  certain  fcribble 
with  thofe  above,  that  does  nc 
ceaje  to  rail  at  the  war  with 
his  pen,  ^rc^  exhort  them  tc 
peace. 

Hefings  to  them  that  hav« 
been  dear  long  f nee.  Long 
fince  /*£  &>nr  a  complaint  J/ 
xjanquifhed  peace  ;?<?r*;  he  has 
writ  an  epitaph  for  the  fame 
being  dead.  There  are  others 
on  the  other  hand,  who  help 
on  our  bufmefs  no  lefs  than  the 
furies  themfelves. 

Who  are  they  ? 

They  are  certain  animals  in 
iraalia 


CHARON. 


i  if 


rnalia   pullis    et    can- 
lidis  palliis,  cinericiis 
unicis,     ornata  variis 
>lumis.  Haec  nunquam 
ecedunt  ab  aulis  ^rz«- 
|^z/77z  .*  ififlillant  in  au- 
em    amorem     belli    : 
-fortantur    procures  et 
^lebem,  eundem.  Clam-, 
tant     in      evangelicis 
oncionibus,  bellumeffe 
\itjlum,  fan&um   et  pi- 
lm.       Ouogue     magis 
mireris     fortem     anu 
mum   hominum,   clam- 
\tant  idem  apud  utram- 
que     partem.        Apud 
Gallos       concionantur 
D^um  flare  pro  Gallis, 
nee  poffe  vinci.  ^m    ha- 
beat     Deum    protefto- 
refti.     Apud  Anglos  et 
IHifpanos,    hoc     helium 
jnon  geri  a  Ccefare,  fed 
\a  Deo.     Tantum   prse- 
Ibeant  fe  fortes     viros, 
vitioriam  effe    certam. 
Qucd  fi  quis  inter ci de- 
nt, cum  non  perire,{(ti 
r  eel  ef ub  volar  t\\\  ccelum 
armatum  ficut  er^/. 

Ch.  Et  tanta  ji.de $ 
habetur  iftis  ? 

A  I,  Quid  non  potefi 
fim  u  la t a  relig  10  f  Hue 
accedxt    juveatus    %m- 


black  and  white  garment,  with 
ajhcolored  tunicks,  adorned 
with  divers  feathers.  Thefe 
never  depart  from  the  courts 
ofprinc.es  :  they  inftil  in  their 
ear  the  love  of  war  :  They 
advife  the  nobles  and  common 
people  to  the  fame  they  batvl 
cut  in  their  fermons,  that  the 
war  is  jufl,  holy  and  pious. 
And  that  you  may  the  ynor-e  ad- 
mire the  flout  mind  of  the 
men,  they  fay  the  fame  with 
bolhftdes.  Among  the  French 
they  preach  that  God  fands  up 
for  the  French,  and  that  he 
cannot  be  conquered,  who  has 
God  for  his  prote&or.  Among 
the  Engiifh  and  Spaniards, 
that  this  war  is  not  carried  on 
by  Cct/ar,  but  by  God.  Let 
them  only  fhew  them/elves 
ftcut  we>2,  the  viclory  is  cer- 
tain. But  if  any  one  /i//j  that 
he  does  not  per  fit,  bnx flies  di- 
reclly  into  heaven,  armed  as  he 
was. 


And  /jyj?  ^raz/  credU  given 
to  them  ? 

What  cannot  pretended  re" 

ligion  do  ?  To    this  is  added 

youth,  ignorance  of   things,  a 

peritia 


n8 

feritia  rerum  ,jitis  glo- 
riae,  ira,  animus  pro- 
mts natura  ad  id  cui 
v'ocatur.  His  facile 
imponitur,  nee  plau- 
Jlrum  propellxtur  diffi- 
cile, pro pendens  ad  ru- 
iuam  Juapte  Jponte. 

Ch.  Ego  lubensjecero 
aliquid  boni  iftis  ani- 
malibus. 

Al.  Appara  I  an  turn 
conviviurn.  Potes  ni- 
hil gratius. 

Ch.  Ex  malvis,  lupi- 
nis,  et  poms,  nam  non 
eft  alia  annona  apud 
nos,  tufas. 

Al.  lino  fcft  per  did- 
•ins,  capis  #  phafianis, 
i^f  vis  j^L'  gratus  convi- 
vator. 

Ch.  Sed  quarts  mo- 
vet  iftos,  z/£  promove- 
ant  helium  tantopere  ? 
Aut  quid  commodi  me- 
tuntAtW. 

AI.Quia  capiuntphis 
emolumenti  e  morienti- 
bus  quam  e  vivi.s.  «S#/2/ 
teftamenta,  parentalia, 
bullae,  mvltaque  alia/w- 
cra  non  afpemanda. 
Denique  ma  hint  v  er  fa- 
ir i  ?/7  caflrts,  q&arn  & 
*/#ii  alvcanbus,      Bel- 


CHARON. 

Mzr/?  of  glory,  finger,  a  Tmri 
/?r0fl<?  by  nature  7<?  M<rtf  t 
which  i*  is  invited.  Tbri 
are  eafily  impofed  upon,  tfi 
fV  /A*  waggon  pujlied  on  diff. 
cultly,  that  leans  toward  avS 

I  would  'wiilifrgfy  do  futu 
good  to  thofe  animals. 

Prepare  a  fine  feaft.  K0 
c^/2  do  nothing  -more  accepts 
ble. 

Of   mallows,    lupines,    anil 
onions,    for  //z<rr£   zj  ??0    olhe 
provij/onswhh  us, as  you  know 

Nay,  partridges,  capons, am 
pheafants,    if    you     will   be 
grateful  entertainer. 

But  -what  thing  moves  them 
that  they  mould  promote  /& 
war  fo  much  ?  0r  what  ad- 
vantage do  they  reap  hence  ? 


:. 


Becaufe  they  receive  more 
benefit  from  the  dead  than  the 
living.  There  are  wills,  fune* 
r#/  rights,  bulls,  w^y,  watfy 
other  gains  not  /0  £<?  defpifed. 
Finally,  M^y  Z'#(i  rather  be  ??* 
camps,  than  r?2  f#fc*t  tf?//|J 
"War  /^aic'jr  many  bij!iopsy  who 

lum 


CHARON. 


n9 


m  gignit  multos  <?- 
fcopos,  qui  in  pace  ne 
jidem  ficbant  terun/ii. 

Ch.  Sapiunt. 

Al.  Sed  quid  opus 
1  triremi  ? 

Ch.  Nihil*/  veliim 
\cere  naufragium  rur- 
ts,  in  media  palude. 

Al.   Ob     multitudi- 

m  ? 

Ch.  Scilicet. 

A.  Atqui  vehis  urn- 
jras,  non  corpora, quan- 
tum autem  ponderis 
abent  umbras  ? 

Ch.  Sint  tipu/a*,  ta- 
len  vis  tipularum  po- 
'ft  effe  tantaf  ut  one- 
int   jymbam.        Turn 

if  et  cymbam  ejfe 
mbratilem. 

Al.   At   ego   me?nini 

diffe  nonnunquam 
ria  millia  umbrarum 
endere  a  tuo  clavo, 
um  elTet  ingens  turba, 
tc  cymba  caperet  om- 
es,  nee  tu  fentiebas 
Hum  pondus. 

Ch.Fateor  ejfe  tales 
nimas,  quae  dtmigra- 
aw/paulatim  e  corpore 
enuato  phtifi  aujt  hctli- 
a.  Cseterum  quce 
evellumur    fubito      e 


in  peace  were   not  fo   much  as 
valued  al  a  far  thing. 

They  are  wife. 

But  what  need  is  there  of  a 
galley  ? 

None,  if  I  would  be  flip- 
wrecked  again  in  the  middle  of 
the  lake. 

Becaufe  of  the  number  ? 

Yes. 

But  you  carry  fouls,  not 
bodies,  and  how  little  weight 
have  fouls  ? 

Let  them  be  water  f pi  ders, 
yet  the  number  of  waterfpiders 
maybe  jo  great  as  to  load  my 
boat.  Then y o u  know  my  boat 
too  is  made  of  fhadow. 

But  /  remember  1  have  feen 
fometvnes  three  thoufnd  fouls 
hang  at  your  helm,  when  there 
was  a  great  multitude,  and 
your  boat  would  not  hold  all, 
nor  did  you  perceive  any 
weight. 

1  confefs  there  are  fachfouls,- 
which  have  departed  by  de- 
grees, out  of  a  body  wafted 
with  a  consumption  or  heclic 
fever.  But  thoje  which  are 
y>u\\z&fuddcnly  out  of  a  grofs 
era (To 


*20 


CHARON; 


era  (To  corpore,  ferunt 
multum  corporece  molis 
fecum.  Apoplexia  au- 
tem,  fynanche,  pefti- 
lentia,  fed  praecipue 
bcllum,  mitt  it  tales. 

AL  Non  opinor 
Gallos  aut  Hfpanos 
adferre.  multum  pende- 
ns. 

Ch.  Multo  minus 
quam  et  ho  rum  animce 
non  veniunt  omnrno 
plumeae.  Ccetevum  ta- 
les veniunt  aliquoties 
e  BritanntSy  e  Germa- 
nis  belle  paftis,  ut  nu- 
per  peri  clitatusfian  ve- 
hens  decern  duntaxat, 
et  n\{\feciJJ'emje>Muram, 
perieram  una  cum  cym- 
ba,  vefloribus,  £<f  naulo. 

Al.  Ingens  dij cri- 
men] 

Ch.  Quid  cenfes  fie- 
ri interest,  cum  crafji 
fatrapae,  thra fonts,  ft 
polymacharce  placida 
accedunt  ? 

Al.  Arbit'ror  nullos 
ex  bis  qui  pereimt  in 
j  ujlo  bello  venire  ad  te  , 
nam  aiunt  eos  fubvola- 
re  retle  in  ccelum. 

Ch.  Nefcio  quo  fub- 
volent.     Scio    illud  u- 


body,  bring  much  of  the  bodt 
ly  ma«fs  along  with  them.  An 
the  apoplexy,  the  quinfy,  th 
plague,  but  efpecially  war 
fend  fuck* 

I  do  not  think  that  theFrenci 
orSpaniards  bring  muchsvc\g\\\ 

Much  lefs  than  others^  al 
though  their  fouls  too  do  not 
come  altogether  as  light 
feathers.     But  fuch  come  oftei 

Jrom  the  Britons,  from  t 
Germans  well  fed,  that  late 
/  was  in  danger  carrying  t, 
only,  and  unlefs  /  had  tkrou 

fome  things  overboard,  I  hac 
been  loft,  together  with  th 
boat,  the  pafiengers,  andlreigh 
money. 

A  prodigious  danger  ! 


fger  ! 
link    is  the 


What  do  you  th 
cafe  in  the  mean  time,  when 
grofs  lords,  heelers  and  bullie, 
come  ? 

I  fuppofe  none  of  thofe  whe 

die  2ft  a  jufl  war  c<?^?^   to  you  ; 

for  they    fay   Ma*  they  fly  up 

direclly  into  heaven. 

1  know  not  whither  they  fl) 
to.     /  4tf0o>  this  one  thing \  as 
nui 


€HARON. 


121 


.quoties  <*/2bellum, 
veniunt  ad  me,  fau- 
cii  lacerique,nt  denirer 
ullum  faperejfe  apud 
fuperos.  Nee  veniunt 
\\folum  onufti  crapula, 
\etabdomine,  verum  c- 
\tiam  bullis,  facer 'do >tiis, 
plurimifquetf/2*V  rebus. 

Al.  Sed  non  dtferunt 
i&ajecu?n. 

Ch.  Verum  ;  fed 
quae  veniunt  recentes 
ddferunt  fomaia  talium 
rerum. 

Al.  Itane  gravant 
fomnia  ? 

Ch.  Gravant  meam 
cymbam.  Quid  dixi, 
gravant  ?  Demerferunt 
jam,  Poftremo  putas 
tot  obolos  habere  nihil 
farcin  as  ? 

Al.  Equidem  arhi- 
tror,  tijerani  asreos. 

Ch.  Proinde  cerium 
eft  ?nihi  profpicere  de 
vavi,  Qndzfufficiat  on- 
eri. 

Al.  O  felicem  te  ! 

Ch.  Quid  ita  ? 
Al.    Quia    diie/ces 
propediem. 

Ch.Ob  multitudintm 
umbrarum. 

Al,  Nae. 


often  as  there  is  a  war,yS>  many 
come  to  me,  wounded  and  man- 
gled, that  I  wonder  that  any 
one  is  left  with  thofe  above. 
Nor  do  they  come  only  loaded 
with  the  dregs  of  hard  drink- 
ing, ?nd  big  bellies,  but  alfo 
with  balls,  livings,  and  very 
many  other  things. 

But  they  do  not  bring  thofe 
things  with  them. 

True  ;  but  thofe  which 
co vie  frefh,  bring  the  dream  of 
fuch  things. 

Do  dreams  load  you  fo  ? 

They  do  load  my  boat. 
What  faid  I,  load  it  ?  They 
funk  itjujl  now.  Finally  do 
you  think  fo  many  half  pennies 
have  no  weight  ? 

Truly  /  think  fo,  if  they 
bring  brazen  ones. 

Wherefore  /  am  refolved  to 
look  outfonajhip  which  may 
fuffice  for  the  burden. 

O  happy  you  ! 

Why  fo  ? 

Becaufe  ^<?«  will  grozo  rick 
prefently. 

Becaufe  oj  the  number  of 
ghofts. 

Yes. 

Ch,  Siquidem 


»122 
I 

GIi.  Siquidern  adfe- 
rebant  fuas  ovebfecum ; 
.nunc  qui  deplorant  in 
jcymba,  fe  reliquiffe  am 
fudfuperos  regna,^r#- 
f hiatus,  abbatias,  innu- 
mera  talenta  auri,  ad- 
Jerunt  722/22/  ad  meprce- 
i&r    obolum.        Itaq  ; 


.CHARON. 


If  they brought  their  richer 
along  with  than  ;  Now  they 
who  lament  in  the  boat,  that 
they  left  with  thoji  above,kmg- 
doms,  bifwpricks,  abbies  in* 
numerable  talents  of  gold  s  bring 
nothing  to  me  befides  a  half- 
penny.  +  Therefore  what  /z#j 
2>£d72  /craped  together  by 


me  - 
.quod  corrofum  eft  mi-    .720?#thefe  three  thoufand  jyc^rj,   I 
hi  ja?n  ter  mille  annis,    d\\  xhat  7nujl  be  laid  out  in  one 
galley. 


5/2 


id  totum    ejfundendum 
in    unam    tiremem. 

Al.  Sumptum  faciat 
oportet,  qui  cua?rit  lu- 
crum, 

Ch.  At  ?nor tales,  ut 
audio,  negotianturjtc/z- 
C?Wff  ouxfavente  Me?- 
curio  ditefcunt  intra 
inennium, 

Al.  Sed  nWm  deco- 
quunt  nonnunquam  : 
iuum  lucrum  mi»  us, 
y^/  certius. 

Ch.  Nefcio  quam 
certum.  Si  quis  deus 
cxoriatur  nunc,  .qui 
CQinpcn.it  res  pr ina- 
pt um,  hsec  tota  {qxs  pe-  loft  by  me 
ficrit  mihi. 

Al.  De  iila  re  <7«z- 
t/ewz  jubeo  dormias  in 
iitramvis  aurein.  JW- 
hilzfl  quod  metuas  pa- 
cem   intra' decennium. 


He  muft-be  at  charge,  &;/*£ 
kzks  gain. 

But  men,  as  /  hear9  trade 
?;z  <??-<?  luckily,  who  Z>jy  the  favor 
of  Mercery,  grow  rich  272  three 
years. 

But  t//£  fame  break  fome- 
times.  Your  ^azw  is  lefs,  £*/£ 
more  certain. 

I  know  not  how  certain.    If 
any  .God  mould  arife  now,  that 
fliould fettle  the  affairs  of  prin- 
ces, this    20/20/*    booty    will  bt 


For  that  matter  truly  1  bid 
you  fZeep  on  either  ear.  You 
need  not  fear  a  peace  within 
theft  ten  years.  The  Roman 
pontiff "alone  exhorts  diligent- 
Roman  us 


itorrjanm  bontifex  unus 
hortatur  fedulo  quidem 
ad'concordiam,  fed  la- 
,  vat  later  em.  Et  civi- 
Itates  murmur  ant  ta^dio 
I  vialorum.  Nefcio  qui 
(  populi  confer unt  fufor- 
ros,  diclitantes  iniqu- 
u  m  effe  a  /  h  u  m  a  n  le  n'  * 
I  mitceantur J urfu/n  de~ 
'  orfiuri,  ob  privatas '  iras 
i  fl&f  arnbiiionern.  d/W- 
r#7/*  triumve.  vW  cre- 
de  mt'^'tj  furias  vincent 
con'fih'a  quamlibtt  rec- 
ta. Cceterum  qivAopus 
erat  peterefupe.ro a  ?  At" 
Bon  ftint  fabri  a  pud 
nos  ?  C^rte  habemus 
Vulcanum. 

C.  Pi!!chre,y?  quae* 
ram  ceream n  a  vim. 

Ak  A  Ho  ins  accerle- 
tur  minimo, 

Ch.  Ita  5/?,  fed-tfztf^- 
rz#  deficit  «&?. 

AI.  Quid  Wz'tf  P 
nihil  fylvarum  illic  ? 

Ch.  Etiain  vemora 
quzefuerant  in  ElviTiis 
campis  abfumpta  funt. 

Ch.  In  quern  ufum 
tandem  ? 

Ch.  Exurendis  &;;z- 
^r?i  haereticorum,  aafea 
a/   nuper   coaQiJimus 


CHARON  i*g 

]y  indeed  to  concord  ;  but  her 
w  allies  #  brick.  The  cities 
tod  murmur  out  of  wearinefs 
of  their  calamities.  I  know 
not  what  people  join'  their 
whifpers,  faying,  it  is  unrea- 
fonabie  that  human  affairs' 
mould  be  jumbled  up  and 
down,  for  the  private  relent- 
ments,  or  ambition,  of  two  or 
three.  But  believe  ?ne,  the 
furies  will  conquer  counfels 
never  fo  good.  But  what  need' 
was  there  £0  go  to  thofe  above? 
Are  there  no  workmen  with 
us  ?  Certainly  we  have  Vulcan ,■ 


Right,  ?/I  wanted  0   braze:*' 
ftip. 

Somebody  wtzy  befentfor 
for  a  fmall  matter. 

So  z/  zj,  but  owa?  fails  as, 

What^  I  hear  ?  Is  there 
nothing  of  woods  there  ? 

Even  the  g ro ves  to  1  \\ c h  &•<? r£ 
in  the  Elyfiaa  fields  are  con* 
fumed. 

For  what  ufc,  pray  ? 

For   burning    M<?  fouls    of 

heretics,  /3  /Aa/  lately  we  were. 

forced  to  dig  coals  out  of  the 

effbdere 


3  24 

effodere  carlones  e  vif- 
ceribus  terra. 

AL  Quid  !  An  non 
pojfunt  iftse  umbra  pu- 
iiiri  minore  fumptu  ?' 

Ch.  Sic  v'ifum  eft 
Rhadarrouitho. 

AL  Ubi  mercatus  e- 
r is  triremem,  unde  re- 
miges  parabuntur.  ? 

Ch.  Meae  partes  te- 
nere  clavum  ;  umbra 
remigent,  fi  velint  tra- 
jicere. 

Al.  At  Junt  quzznon 
Jidiccrunt  agere  re- 
mum. 

Cb.  Nullus  eft  cxi- 
mitts  apudme.  Etmo- 
narchae  remigant,  et 
zardinaies  remigant, 
quifqut  fuamvicem,  720/2 
■minus  quam  tenues  p!e- 
hes,  Jive  didicerint  Jive 
lion  didicerint. 

AL  Fac  tu  mercere 
triremem  felicxUr  dex- 
tro  Mercuric  Ego 
non  remorabor  te  am- 
plius*  Adferam  latum 
nuncium  orco  ;  fed  he* 
us,  heus,  Charon. 

Ch.  Quid  eft  ? 

AL  Fac  matures  re- 
ditum,  ne  turba  abruat 
te  mox. 


CHARON. 

bowels  of  the  earth: 


What  !  Cannot  thefc  fouh 
be  puniflied  at  lejs  charge  ? 

So  itfeemedgood  to  Rhada- 
manthus. 

When  you  have   bought 
galley,  whence   will  rowers  b€ 
got  ? 

My  part  is  /0  hold  the  helm ; 
&/  the  fouls  row,  if  M*y  ^2// 
pais  over. 

But  there  are Jome  which  have 
not  learnt  to  manage  an  oar. 

None  is  exempted  with  m£+ 
Monarchs  too  row,  and  cardi- 
nals row,  every  man  his  turn,^ 
no  lejs  than  poor  commoners, 
whether  they  have  learnt,  or 
have  not  learnt. 


See  you  purchafe  a  galley 
cheap  by  the  favor  of  Mercury 
/  will  not  detain  you  awy  /0/2- 
^w.  I  will  carry  this  joyful 
news  to  hell;  but  Joho,  foho 
Charon  ? 

What  is  the  matter  ? 

See  you  kajlen  your  return, 
lejl  the  crowdJJiould  overwhelm 
you  by  and  by. 

Ch.Imo 


OPULENTIA  SORD1DA. 


t*s 


Nay  you  zvill  jind  already 
more  than  two  -hundred  tbou- 
fand  upon  the  bank,  befides 
thofe  which  are  Jiv i m m ihg  i p, 
the  lake  ;  yet  1  will  haften  qs 
turn  licebit  ;  die  Mis  much  as pq/Jible  ;  td\  tkem that 
me  adfuturum  mox.         I  will  be  with  them  prefadly* 


Ch.Imo  offendes  jam 
plus  quarn  dfocfTz/izmil- 
jia  in  rip  a,  praeter  Mas 
qua3  natant  in  palude  ; 
iamnn  properabo  quart- 


OPULENTIA  '  SORDID  A. 


AT  TNDE  es  tarn 
v-'  exjuccus,  quafi 
pajfus Jis  rore  czm  aoz- 
i/?jr.  Videris  mihi  ni- 
hil aliud  opamfyphar 
hominis. 

B.  Apud  inferos  urn-.: 
br<*  faturantur  malva  et 
porro,  at   6g0   vixi  de- 
cern   mmfes   ubi  ?zd  z'df 
^znVmcontigit. 

A.  Ubinarn  ^#/5  tcf 
nurn  abreptus  :>2  navem 
gale  at  a  ?n  ? 

B.  Nequaquam,/^/ 
Synod  ii. 

A.  Periclitatuses  bu- 
limia in  tam  opulenta 
urbt  ? 


FROM  whence  are  you  fai 
void  of  juice  ^  as  \$  you  had 
v^/z  y^^  with  dew  with  the. 
gr a/shoppers.  You  feem  to 
me  nothing  elfe  than  thejkin  of 
a  man. 

In  hell  ghojls  are  fed  with 
mallows  and  onions,  but  / 
/z^r/tf  /zWaf-  ten  months  where 
notfo  much  as  that  fell  to  my 
fhare. 

Where,  /  pray  you,  were 
you  carried  aboard  a  galley  ? 

No,  but  at  Synodium, 

Were  you  in  clanger  by  jam* 
inciii  foriehtf  city, 

B;  Maxima j 


126 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


B.  Maxime. 

A.  Quid  in  caufa  ? 
An  deerat  pecuma  ? 

B.  Nee  pecunia  nee 
amici. 

B.  Quid  erat  mali 
igitur  ? 

B.Mihi  res  erat  cum 
hofpite  Antronio. 

A.  Cum  illo  opulen- 
to? 

B.  Sed  fordidiffimo . 
A.  NdLrrasJimilc  raon- 

ftro. 

B.Minime.  Sic  di- 
vites  Jiunt  qui  emur- 
gunt  e  furnma  inopia. 

A. Quid  ita  libuit 
commorari  tot  menfes 
apud  ta/m  hofpitem  ? 

B.  Erat  quod  dWiga- 
xett  et  fie  animus  erat 

A.  Sed  die  obfecro, 
qui  apparaiu'  v\v\t  i!le. 

B.Dicam  qkandoqui- 
dem  commemoratio 
a  do  rum  1  a'fepr  u  m  folet 
Gflejucunda- 

A.  Futura  eft  mihi 
certe. 

Be  Illud  incommodi 
acceffit  a  ccelo,  cum  a- 
gerem  illic.  Boreas 
Tpirabat  tres  totos  ffze??- 
/<L<\  jiifi  jwc*/  illic  w^* 


Yes. 

What  was  the  reafon? 
money  wanting  ? 


Wa, 


Neither  money  not  friends, 

What  was  the  misfortune 
then  ? 

I  had  to  do  with  my  landlord. 
Antronius. 

With  that  rich  man  ? 

But  very  fordid. 

You  tell  me  a  thing  like  a 
prodigy. 

•No".     So  rich  men   are  th 
rife  from  extreme  poverty. 

Why  had  you  fuch  a  mind* 
to  flay  fo  many  months  with 
y&<;A  an  hoft.    i 

There  was  fomething  that 
obliged  me,  and  fo  my  mind 
was  then. 

Em  tell  me,  I  pray  you,  upon 
what  provifion  does  he  live  ? 

I  will  tell  you,  feeing  the 
relation  of  pafl  troubles  u/es  to 
be  pleafant. 

It  will  be  fo  to  me  certain- 
ly. 

That    inconvenience     came 

fro?n   heaven,     when   7  lived 

4  there.     7%«  north  wind : blew 

three  whole  months,  but  that 

there  I  know  not  how  itneva 

en 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


t%y 


cio  quomodo  nunquam 
•  prejerverat  ultra  otta- 
vum. 

A.  Quomodo  igitur 
J  fpirabat  ires  totos  merc- 

/^  f 

B.  Sub  eum    diem 
\  mutabat  ftationcm   ve~ 

lut  ex    conftituto,  Jed 
I  port  0<?0  horas   migra- 
vitin  priorem  locum. 

A.  Ibi  opus  erat   lu- 
;  culentoy^n?  tenui  cor- 

pufculo, 

B.  TLratfatis  ignis, 
^  fuppetiffet  r^za  lig- 
riorum.  Sed  ne  w^r 
Antronius faceret  quid 
impendii  heic,  evellebai 
radices  arborum  ex 
iu  fculis  infularibus; 
negle&as  abaliis.idquG 

fere  nofle.  Ex  his 
nondurn  bene  ficcis  ig- 
nis ftruebatur,  non 
abfq  ;  fumot  fed  fine 
flamma,  non   qui    cale- 

faceret,  fed  qui  praefta- 
ret,  ne  po/fet  dici  vert 
effe  nullum  ignem  ibi. 
Unicus  autem  ignis 
durabat  totum  diem, 
adeo  temperatum  erat 
incendium. 

A.  Erat  durum  hy 
bernare  tftfe, 


continues  htyonA  the    eighth. 
day, 

How  Mew  did  it  blow  Mra 
whole  months  ? 

About  that  day  */.  changed 
its  ftation   aj   t/  aw*  on  pur- 
pofe,  but  after   eight  hours  a£ 
Jhijted  into  its  former  place. 

There  a;*zx  need  of  a  bright 
jfr*  for  a  thin  tai/y. 

There  was  enough  of  fire,  if 
there  had  been  plenty  of  wood. 
But  left  oar  Amroniusfhouldbe 
at  any  charge 'here,  he  pulled  up 
the  roots  0/  /raj  out  of  fome 
grounds  m  Me  ijlands,  negleft* 
ed  by  others,  and  that  common- 
ly in  the  night.  Out  of  theja 
not  yet  fc^//  dry,  a  Jire  was 
made,  not  vi\4Cho\\\.fmoke,  but 
without  flame,  not  that  would 
warm9  but  M#£  would  affeft, 
Mj/  aV  could  not  be  faid  ^rw/y 
that  there  was  no  fire  there. 
And  one  ^r£  lafled  the  whole 
day,y<?  moderate  owj  the  burn-* 
ing. 


It  was  hard  to  winter  there* 
B.  Imo 


OPULENTIA  SORDIBA. 


B.  Imo  erat  multo 
'durius  aeftivare. 

A.  Qui  fie  ? 

B.  Quoniam  ea  do- 
mus  habebat  tantum 'p u~ 
licum  et  cimicum*  ut 
nee  licuerit  <  efTe  qui- 
etum  interdiu,  nee  ca- 
$erefl??nnum  nofle. 

A.  Miferas  divitas  ! 
A.    Pasiertim  in  hoc 
genere  pec  oris. 

A.  Oportet  fceminas 
effe  ignavas  illic. 

B.  Latitant,  nee  ver- 
fantur  inter  vivos  ;  ita 

Jit  ut  illic  feeminae^/fo* 
nihil  aliud  quam  jfe- 
7722??^  ;  et  ea  minifteria 
defint  viris,  qux  folent 
Juppe ditari  ab  eo  fexu. 

A.  Sed  non  pigebat 
-  Antronium      trat'tatio- 

nis  ? 

B.  Nihil  erat  dulce 
Mi  educato  in  hujuj- 
modi  fordibus  praeter 
lucrum  ;  habitavit  abi- 
vis  potius  quam  domi, 
negotiabatur  in  omni 
re.  Scis  autan  earn 
urbem  ^mercurialem 
prce  cater  is.  I  lie  no- 
bilis  piftor  exijlimavit 
deplorandum    ft     dies 

^abnjfet    abfquc    iinea. 


Nay,  it  was  much  harder  tc 
fummer. 

How  fo  ? 

Becaufe  that  houfe  had  th 
many  fleas  and  gnats,  that  . 
was  neither  pojjible  to  be  quiet 
by  day,  nor  take  rejl  by  night; 


Miferable  riches  f 

Efpecially  in   this  kind  of.\ 
cattle. 

The  women  mu  ft   be  idl 
there. 

They  lie  hid,  nor  do  the^i 
converfe  among  the  men  , 
it  comes  to pafs  that  there  worn* 
en  are  nothing  elj'e  but  women; 
and  thofe  fer  vices  are  wanting 
to  the  men,  fhat  ufe  to  -be  flup- 
plied  by  that  fex. 

But  was  not  Antonius  zik 
ry  of  that  treatment  ? 

Nothing  was  ylezhnito  him 
brought  up  in  Juch  najlinefs,, 
but  gain  :  He  lived  any  where 
rather  than  at  home  ;  he  trad- 
ed in  e/ery  thing.  And  you 
-know'  that  city  is  bufied  in 
trade  above  others.  That  no- 
ble  painter  thought  it  a  thing 
to  be  lamented,  J  a  day  paffea 
without  a  flroke.  Antronius 
lamented  it  much  more,  if 
day  pajfed  without  gain,  which 
Antronius 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


iagr 


nironius  deplorabat 
e  magisy?dies  proz- 
rifftt  abfque  lucro  ; 
uod  fi  quando  evenif- 
t,  qucerebat  Mercuri* 
m  do  mi. 
A. Quid  faciebat  ? 
B.Habebat  cifiernam 
aedibus  ex  more  ejus 
ivitatis.  Illic  haurie- 
tetaliquos  iitulos  aqua, 
2t  xnfundebat  in  vinaria 
jyafa.  Heic  erat  cer- 
(um  lucrum. 

A.  Fortaffe   vinum 
rat  cequo  vehementius. 

B.  Imo  erat  plus 
yw<2772vappa  ;  namnun- 
quam  emebat  vinum 
flifi  corruplum  quo  m- 

I  *r^  minoris.  <M?  quid 
ex  eo  periret,  fubinde 

\  mifcebat  faces   decern 

I  annorum,  volvens  ac 
revolvens    omnia,    quo 

*  videtur  muftum*  Ne- 
que   enim    ille    paflius 

■  iuiffet    ullam .    micam 

feeds  perire. 

A.  Atji  qua  fides 
medicis,  tale  vinum  gig- 
nit  calculos  veficae. 

B.  Non  erant  ;?Wz- 
ci  ;  nam  £rtf£  nullus 
annus  in  ea  domo  taw 
felix,  qu%n  unus  a/^e 


if  at  any  time  it  happened,  he 
fought  gain  af  Atfz^. 


What  did  he  do* 

He  had  a  cifiern  in  his  tioufiv 
according  to  the  cuflom  of  that 
city.  There  he  drew  fome 
buckets  of  water,  and  poured 
them  into  the  wine  veffels* 
Here  was  certain  gain. 

Perhaps   the  wine  was   tatf 

Jlrong.  i 

Nay  *V  &/<?x  more  */z<zfl  dead 
drink  ;  for  he  never  bought 
a>272£  unlefs  it  was  corrupted^ 
that  he  might  by  it  cheaper., 
Left  any  of  it  fhould  be  loft» 
now  and  then  he  mixed  dregs 
of  ten  years  old,  rumbling  and 

jumbling  all  tpgether,  that  it 
might  feem  nezv  wine.  For  he 
would  not  have^  fuffered  any,: 
bit  of  dregs  to  be  loft. 


But  if  any   credit  muft   be 

given  to  the  doclors,  fuch  wine 

breeds  the  jl one  of  the  bladder* 

They  were  not  doclors  ;  for 

there  was  no  year  in  thathoufe 

y2>  happy,  but  one  ##</  another 

died  of  the  Hone,    /for  did  he 

al  tea 


*3.o 


GPULENTIA  SORDID/^ 


alter  periret     calcuio.    dread  a  mournful  houfe» 
Neque  ille  horrebatjfo- 
nejlam  domum. 

A.  Non.  Nc. 

B.  Colligebat  etiam  He  coilecled  alfo  tribute  o\ 
vcftigal  a  mortuis,  nee  the  dead ;  nor  did  he  defpijA 
a/per  nahatur  lucellum  gain,  though  never  Jo  fmall, 
quamvis  exiguum. 

You  fpeak  of  theft,  ■ 
Tradefmen  call  it  gain» 


A.  Dic'isjurtum* 

B.  Negotiators  v&- 
cant  lucrum. 

A,  Quid  interea  bibe- 
bat  Antrcnius  ? 

I.  Idem  ne&ar  ferme. 

A.  Non  fenfit  ma- 
lum? 

B.  Erat  durus,  qui 
pojfet  effe  vel  Foertu^, 
et,  ut  dixiy  fuerat  edu- 


What  in  the  mean  time  dranfe  ! 
Antoneus  ? 

The  fomzneclar  commonlyvl 
Did  he  perceive  no  harm  f  | 


He  was  /wn/,  v/ho  could  eat" 
even  hay?  an  das  I /aid,  he  had 
been  brought  up  from  his  ten- 
catus  a  tener'is  an#js  in  der  years  in  fuch  dainties.  He 
talibus  Mliciis»  Ex-  looked  upon  nothing  morccer- 
iftimabat  w*At/  certius  izm  than  this  gain, 
hoc  lucro. 

A.  Quid  ha?  Why  fo  ? 

B.  S\ /hpputes  uxo-  -li>0ar^0w  his  mk^fons^ 
rem,  filios,  BWam,  gen-  daughter,  foninlazo,  workfolks, 
erum,  operas,  <?*  famu-  a«#  maids,  he  maintained  at 
las,  alebat  domi  frig**.-  home,  thirtythree  bodies.  Now 
te  tria  corpora.  Jam  /^  A<?a;  f».«^  ^  weaker  the 
quo  dilutius  vinum  e-  vtine  wzsj'yfo  muck  the  more 
rat,  hoc  parcius  bibeba-  fparingly  it  was  drank,  and  the 
tur  et  ftrius  exhaurie-  later  it  was  drawn  off.  Here 
batur.  Hie  fubducito  reckoner  me,  what  a  confid- 
ttiAt,  quam  non  pceni-  erable/w^  a  bucket  of  water 
tzv.&zm  finnmam  JStula  added  jfor  «tfry  ^jy  would 
tf<™#  addita  in  finzulos    make  zw  a  year* 

dies  J 


•OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


iS'i 


its   «onficeret  in   an- 
um. 

A.  O  fordcs  ! 

B.  Atque  non  minus 
ompendii  redibat  ex 
)ane. 

A.  Quo  pafto  ? 

B.  Emebat  vitiatum 
riticiimt^&0d?  alius  no- 

Iuijfet  emere.  ■  Heic 
srauens  lucrum  ftatim, 
luod  emebat  ynmoris. 
Caeterum  medicabatur 
vitium  arte. 

A.  Guo  tandem? 

B.  Eft  genus  argillae 
sion  ditnmile  Jrumento, 
quo  videmus  equos  de- 
leclari,  dum  et  arrc- 
dunt  parietes,  et  bibunt 
libentius  ex  lacunis 
turbidis  ea^rgilla.  Ad- 
jmfcebat  tertian  partem 

ejus  terrae. 

A.  Eft  ijluc  medica- 
ri  ? 

B.  Certe  vitium  tri- 
tici  minus  fenliebatur. 
An  putas  hoc  lucrum 
quoque  afpernandum  ? 
Adde  jam  aliud  ftrata- 
gema  :  Subigebat  pa- 
nem  domi,  nee  id  ere- 
brius,  etiarn  cejlate^ 
quam  bis  in  menfe. 

A.  Iftuc  ejl  appone- 


A.  O  fneakingeefs  ! 
But  no  lefs  profit  arofe  from 
the  bread. 

How  ? 

He  bought  fpoiled  wheat 
zohich  another  would  not  buy, 
Here  was  pre  fen  t  gain  imme- 
diately, becaufe  he  bought  it 
cheaper.  But  he  cured  the 
fault  by  art. 

What,  pray  ? 

There  is  a  fort  of  clay  not 
unlike  meal,  with  which  we  fee 
horfes  are  pleafed,  whilft  they 
both  gnaw  walls,  and  drink, 
more  willingly  out  of  ditches 
?nuddted  with  that  clay.  He 
mixed  a  thlrdpart  of  that  earth. 


Is  that  curing  ? 

Certainly  the  fault  of  the 
wheat  zv as  lefs  perceived.  Do 
you  think  this  gain  aljo  to  be 
defpifed  ?  Add  now  another 
ftratagem  :  He  made  his  brejd 
at  home,  and  that  not  oftcner, 
even  in  fummery  &Hat<twice  in 
a  month. 

That  is  to   ferve  up  floties, 


*$2 


OPULENT1A  SORDIDA. 


xe  lapides  non  panes. 

B.  Aut/i  quid  e/l  du- 
rius  lapide.  Sed  tot2£- 
/&&;#  erat  paratum  hu- 
ic  Trca/fl  quoque.     . 

A.  Ouodnam  ?        * 

B.  Macerabant/nzg- 
menta  panis  mVztf  im- 
merfa  cyathis. 

A.  Labra  kabebant 
fimiles   laclucis.      Sed 

ferebant  cperaz  talem 
traclationem  ? 

B.  Primum  narrabo 
apipzratumpriTnarum  e- 
jus  familiae,  yw<?  divi- 
nes facilius  quomodo 
opera  traftentur. 

A.  Cupio  audire* 

B.  Erat  nulla  men- 
tio  ifiz£  de  jentaculo. 
Prandium  differebatur 

jere  in  primam  horam 
a  rneridie. 

A.  Quamobrem  ? 

B.  Antronius  pater- 
familias expe&abatur  : 

Ccenabatur  interdum  ad 
decimam  horam. 

A.  At  tu  folebas  effe 
impatientior  incdix. 

B.  Eoque  fubinde 
clamabam  ad  Orthro- 
gonum  generum  Antro- 
nii,  (nana  agebamus  in 
eodern  conclavij  Heus 


not  loaves. 

Or  if  any  thing  be  hard* 
then  a  Jlone.  But  #  reined 
was  provided  for  this  evil  too 

What  ? 

They  (baked  jtoVtrej  of  breac 
z'rc  t^zVztf  being  dipped  in  tk 
glaffes. 

Lips  they  had  like  lattices 
But  dW  Me  workfolks  bta* 
with  fuch  treatment  f 

Firft  /  an//  tell  you  the  pro. 
vifions  of  the  principal  p  erf  on* 
of  his  family,  M#£  you  may 
guefs  Me  ztttfre  eajily  how  rtwri 
/<?//£;•  are  treated. 

I  defire  to  hear. 

There  was  no   mention  tker 
of  breaiifaj}^    dinner   was    put 
off  commonly  till  the  Srft  hout 
afternoon. 


What  for  ? 

Antronius  the  mafter  of  the 
family  was  waited  for.  We 
fupped  fometimes  at  the  tenth 
hour. 

But  you  ufed  to  be  more  im- 
patient under  fajling. 

And  therefore  now  and  then 
I  cried  out  to Orthrcgonusjon- 
inlaw  *f  Antronius  J  for  zvewere 
in  the  fame  room  jioho  Orthro- 
gonus,  do  they  not  fup  today 
Othrogone 


OPULENT1A  SORDIDA. 


*33 


Or t hr ogo ne nonccenatur    among  the  Synodians  ?  He  an- 
4^z>ap«dSynodos  ?Re-  fwered   foftly,  that   Antronius 


fpondit  commodeAntro 
nium  adfuturum  brevi. 
Cum  viderem  nihil  ap- 
■parari,  ctjlomachusla- 
Itraret  ;  heus,  inquam, 
lOrthrogone^rlt  pereun- 
dum  fame  hodie  ?  Ex- 
cufabat  horam,  aut  ali 


would  come  prefently.     When 


I /aw  nothing  got  ready,  and 
my  flomach  barked  ;  Johoi  I 
fay ,Orthrogonus  muft  we  per- 
ifli  with  famine  today  ?  ife 
alledgedin  excufe  the  hour,  or 
fome  like  thing.  When  / 
could  not  bear  the  barking  of 
|  quid  fimile.  Cum  non  my  flomach,  I  interrupted  him 
jerrem  latratum^/? oma-  being  bufy  again.  What  wiU 
cki9  interpellabam  oc-  become  of  us  ?  fay  I,  muft  we 
cupatum  rurfus.  Quid  die  of  hunger  ?  When  now 
futurum  ejl  ?  inquam,  Orthrcgonus  had  fpent  all  his 
erittemoriendumfame?  excufes, he  went  to  thefervants, 
Ubi  jam  Orthrogonus  and  ordered  the  table  to  be 
confumpfiffet  omnem  fpread.  At  length,  when  nm- 
tergiverfationem,  abiit  ther  Antronius  returned,  nor 
ad  famulos,     juffitque    anything   was    got  ready,  Or- 


throgonus,  being  prevailed  up  - 
*>n  by  my  reproaches,  went 
down  to  his  wife,  motherinlaw, 
and  children,  crying  out,  that 
theyjhould  make  ready  fupper. 


menfam  adomari.  Tan 
deni  cum  nee  Antroni- 
us rediret  nee  quidquam 
apparatum,  Orthrogo* 
nus  viclus  meis  convi- 
ciis,  defcendebat  ad 
uxorem,  focrum,  ac  li- 
beros,  clamitans,  ut  ap- 
pararent  caenam. 

A.  Nuncfaltem  ex-  Now  /lozuevw  I  expecl;  the 
peQo  ccenam.  /upper. 

B.  Ne  propera.  Tan-  Be  not  hafty.  At  length  a 
dem  claudus  famulus  lame  fervant  came  out  appoints 
prodibat  prafetlus  ei  ed  for  that  bufinefs,  not  very 
negotio,  non  admodum  unlike  Vulcan  ;  he  covers  the 
difimilis  Vulcano  ;  in-    table  zoith  a  doth.     That  was 

M  flernit 


*34 


OFULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


fernit  menfam  linteo. 
£a  prima  fpes  cczruz. 
Tandem  pojl  longam 
voaferationem,  vitrei 
phiahz  aiTeruntur  cum 
aqua  limpida  fane. 

A.  Altera  fpes  cce- 

B.  Ne  propera,  in- 
qua?n.  Rurfus  pojl 
atroces  clamores,  p/iia- 
la  plenis  ijiius  fecu- 
lenti   neclaris  adfertur. 

A.  O  bene  factum  ! 

B.  Sed  Jine  pane. 
Nihil  periculi  adhuc. 
Nemo  famelicus  bibit 
tale  vinum  lubens.  Cla- 
Saturn  eft  iterum  uf- 
que  ad  ravim.  Turn 
demum  ilk  panis  op* 
ponitur,  quern  urfus 
vix  frangeret  dentibus. 

A.  Certe  /#w  con- 
fultum  eft  vitce. 

B.  Sub  multam  noc- 
tem  tandem  Antronius 
r/^/zzV,  fere  hoc  inaufpi- 
catifiimo  prooemio  ut 
dicer et  ftemacbum  fibi 
dolere. 

A.  Quid  mail  aufpi- 
cii  hie  ? 

B.  Quia  tunc  erat 
nihil  quod  ederetur. 

A.  Dolebat  re  vera  ? 


thejirfl  hope  of  Juppsr.      At  I 
laft  after    long  fhouting,  glafs 
t/m/j-  are  brought^  »tM  water  I 
clear  indeed. 


Another  hope  of  (upper. 

Do  not  haften,  If  ay.  A* 
gain,  after  fierce  clamors,  a 
vial  full  of  that  dreggy  neclor 
is  brought, 

O  well  done  I 

But  zvithout  bread.  Ncnh-, 
ing  of  danger  yet.  No  hun- 
gry body  drinks  fuck  wine  wil- 
lingly. I  fhouted  again  even 
to  hoarfenefs.  Then  at  laft 
that  bread  i*j  ft  on,  which  a 
bear  could  fcarce  break  with 
his  teeth. 

However  now  provifion  is 
made  for  life. 

Late  at  night  at  lajl  Antro- 
nius comes,  commonly  with 
this  moft  unlucky  preface,  that 
he  faid  his  ftpmach  was  out  af 
order. 

What  ill  luck  was  here  ? 

Becaufe/te  there  was  noth- 
ing to  eat. 

Was  it  out  of  order  indeed  ? 
B.  Adeo 


C'PULENTIA  SORDIDA, 


*3$ 


B.    AJeo  tit     fo'lus 
\devoraturus Juerit  tres 
capos    fi   qias   dediflet 
I  gratis. 

A.  Espe£lo  conviv 
turn* 

B.  Primum  patina 
cum  Jab  a  cea  farina  ap- 
pontbatur  ilH,  quod 
genus  opfonii  venditur 
illic  tenuibus.  Aiebat 
ie  uti  hoc  remeclio  ad- 
verfus  attme  genus 
xnorbi. 

A.  Quot  c'onvivce e- 
ratis  ? 

B.  Interdum  <?#£ 
aut  ncvem.  Inter  quos 
frtf/  iile  doElus  Verpi- 
us,  y#m  arbitror  fypn 
ignotum  tibi  ?'*/  major 
imuflius. 

A.  Quid  apponeba- 
titr  il lis  ? 

B.  An  non   fatis  eft 
jrugi  hominibus,  quod 

Mclchifedcck  ohtuWx.  A- 
brahamce  viftori  quin- 
que  regum  ? 

A.  Nihil  opfonii  ig» 
itur  ? 

B.  Erat  nonnihil. 

A.  Quodnam  ? 

B.  Mem  in i  nos  fuif- 
fe  novem  convivas  nu- 

rnero   in   men fa ,    cum 


So  much  /#£/  he  alone  would 
have  eaten  three  capons,  if  tf/zy 
07??  would  have  given  thtmjor 
nothing. 

1  wait  for  thejeafl. 

Firfta  dijli  with  /y^a  meal 
was  fcrved  up  for  him,  zvhick 
kind  <?/  vicinal 'x  is  fold  //kr<?  to 
the  poor.  He /hid  he  ufed  this 
remedy  againjl  every  /^W  of 
difeafe. 


How  many  ^ ?<'£/'? j-  were  you  ? 

Sometimes  eight  or  nine.  A- 
mong  whom  ^«;  that  learned 
man  Verpius,  who  I  think  is 
not  unknown  to  you  ;  and  his 
elderjbn. 

What  t6'^zx  ferved  up  to 
them  ? 

Is  not  that  enough j^r  ?nod- 
erate  ?nen,  which  Melchijedeck 
offered  to  Abraham  the  con- 
queror of  Jive  kings? 

Nothing  of  other  viEluals 
then? 

There  wasfomethinar. 

What  ? 

I  remember  we   were  nine 

£z/£/?j  in  numbers/  tal?le,\vhen 

I  counted  but  Jeven  little  leaves 

numerariim 


*3<S 


OPULENTIA  SORD1DA. 


tiumerarem  non  niGfef- 
tem  foliola  laclucce  in- 
natanta   aceto,    fed  ab- 
/que  oleo. 

A.  Devdrabat  ille  u 
gitur  fuas    fabas/^vj  ? 

B.  Emerat  vix  femi- 
bolo,  nee  /^^^2  veta- 
bat,  Ji  quis  affidens 
proxime  vtllet  gujlare  ; 
fed  videbatur  incivile 
erifere  fuum  a£a?#  lan- 
guido. 

A.  Secabantur  foliar, 
quemadmodum  prover- 
bium  meminit&t  curni- 

1*0  ? 

B.  Non  jj£#  laclucis 

abfuwptisapi  imoribus, 
reliqui  immergebant 
pancm  aceto. 

A.  Quid  imtmpofi 
kptem/qlia .? 

B.  Quid  w//2  cafcus 
tlaufula  conviviorurn? 

A.  Iliccinc  zxvX  per- 
petuus apparatus  ? 

B.  Propemocum  ; 
ni/i  quod  mierdtifnM  fi 
expertus  fuijfet  Mercu- 
rium  prcpitium,  eo  die 
erat  paulo  profi/cr. 

A.  Ouid  turn. 

B.  Jubebat  /r^  re- 
cecemes  uvas  enii  2//zc? 
nummuio    cereo,       Ea 


of  lettuce,   fwimming  ^    vine- 
gar ;  but  without  oil. 


Did  he  devour  //**«  his  beans 
£y  him/elf? 

He  had  bought  them  y^r 
/caret  a  /at  thing,  nor  yet  did 
he  forbid  it,  if  «ny  onefating 
next  him  had  a  mind  to  tajle  ; 
but  it  feemed  uncivil  to  take 
his  vicluals  from  the  fick  man. 

Were  the  leaves  cut,  as  the 
proverbs kes  mention  of  Cum- 
min ? 

No  ;  but  the  lettuces  being 
eat  up  by  the  chief  perfons,  the 
reft  dipped  their  bread  in  the 
vinegar. 

But  what  after  the  feven 
leaves  ? 

What  but  cheefe,  the  con» 
clufion  of  feafts  ? 

Was  this  his  perpetual  pro- 
vifion  ? 

Almoft  ;  but  tkv&t  [0  me  times  % 
if  he  had  found  Mercury  fa- 
vorable, that  day  he  zvas  a  lit- 
tle more  projv/e. 

What  then  ? 
He  ordered  three  frefh  bunch- 
es of  grapes  to  be  bought  with 
one  little  piece  of  money  of 

ret 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA 


I'M 


res   exhilar&bat   totam 
I  familiam. 

A.  Quidni  ? 

B.  Id  duntaxat  ec 
tempore,  cum  eft  fum~ 
ma  vilitas  uvarum  ibi- 

A.  Proin prof undeb&t* 
nihil  extra   autumnuni* 

B.Profundebat.  Sunt 
illic  naviculatores,  qui 
hau riunt quoddam  min- 
t/turn genus  concha- 
rum,  potiffimum  e  la- 
trinis.  Hi  fignificant 
certo  clamore  quid  lia- 
beant  venale.  Inter- 
dura  jubebat  emi  ab  hisr 
dimidio  numrnuli, 

quern  WW  appellant  Ba- 
gathinuin.  Turn  vert" 
dixiffes  ejfe  nuptial  in 
eajamilia.  Nam  erat 
opus  igni,  licet  perco- 
quantur  celerrime.  At- 
que  hasc  quideiK .poll 
cafeum  loco  bel'larib- 
rum. 

A.  Bella     bellartd 
lAehercuIe.     Sid  nihiL 
carnium     apponebatur 
Unquam,   aut  pifctum  ? 

B.  Tandem  xABus 
meis  clamoribus,  cce'pit 
effe/ptendidior.  Quo- 
ties  autem  volebcit  vi- 
deri  Lucullus^  hi  fer me  ' 
eifcnt  wiijfus. 

M  2  ^ 


£r#/}.     That  thing  rejoiced  the 
whole  family. 

Why  not  ? 

That  <?;z/}'  at  that  time,  zy/ze# 
there  is  0  very  great  cheapnefs 
of  grapes  there. 

Wherefore  did  he    fpend^ 
nothing  out  of  autumn  ? 

He  did  fpend.  There  are 
there  boatmen^  who  take  a  cer- 
tain little  fort  of  fhellfiJIi^chieU 
ly  0&/  ojthejeioers.  Thefe 
£fe£  notice  by  a  certain  crj/ 
what  *7zey  have  to  fell.  Some- 
times  he1  ordered  fome  ^  ^ 
bought  of  them/flr  Aa^"a  piece 
of  money,  which  they  c4//  Ba- 
gathinus:  But  then  you  would 
harve  faid  //£#£  tf^re  a/tf  j  a  wed- 
ding z«  that  family.  For  £^r£ 
&a.f  need  0/  a  fire,  although 
they  be  boiled  very  quickly. 
And  thefe  were  indeed  after  the 
cheefe  in/lead  of   fweetmeats*.- 


Prttiyfeeet meats'  indeed , 
Uz/£  was  no  flelh  ferved  up  ev- 
er %  orfjli? 

At  laft  bting  overcomt 'with 
my  clamors,  /£e  3^'w  to  be 
more  /pie n did.  But  as  often 
as  he  had  a  mind  to  fecm  a 
Lucullus,  thefe  commonly  were 
A?j  -difhes. 

A;  lilac 


13» 


OPULENTIA  BORDIDA. 


A.  Ifluc  vero  lubens 
audiero. 

B.  Primo  locorjuf- 
■culum  dabatur,  quod 
illi,  nefcio  ob  quam 
caufam,  appellant  min- 
iftram. 

A.  Lautum  opinor.  ' 

B.  Conditwm  his  a- 
romatibus.  Cacabus 
admovctvtr  igni  plenus 
aqua  ;  conjiciunt  in  e- 
um  aliquot  fragmenta 
cafei  bubulini,  qui  jam 
»lim  induruit  in  Jax- 
um.  Nam  opus  eft  bo- 
mfecuri  ad  defringen- 
dum  aliquid.  Cum  ea 
fragmenta  coeperint 
folvi  tepore  aquee%  infi- 
ciunt  earn,  ne  pojjit  dici 
mera  aqua.  ^Prapa- 
rant     {ipmachum    hoc 

jufculo. 

A.  Dignum   fuibus. 

B.  Dein  paulum  car- 
nium  flfe  ventre  veteris 
vaccae  apponitur,  fed 
dixum  ante  quindecirn 
dies, 

A.  Fastet  igitur, 

B.  Maxinae,  ^^  re- 
medium  adhibetur. 

A.  Quodnam  ? 

B.  Dicam,fed  Vfjre* 
Or  neimitfjis* 


That   indeed  I    would  wil- 
lingly bear. 

In  the  firfl  place  a  broth 
was  given  us,  which  they, 
/4;z,*b;  wj/  for  what  c^ufe,  call 
miniftra* 

Dainty,  Ifuppofe. 

Seafoned  with  the  fpices. 
A  kettle  is  Jet  upon  the  fire 
full  of  water,  they  throw  into 
it  fome  pieces  of  cheefe  made 
ot  cow's  milk,  which  long  be- 
fore  was  grown  as  hard  as  a 
Jlone.  lor  there  is  need  of  i 
good  ax  to  break  any  thing 
off.  When  thofe  fragments 
begin  *<?  /5^  dffolved  by  the 
warmth  of  the  water \  they  give 
it  a  taite,  /Aaf  it  cannot  be  call- 
it  mere  water.  They  prepare 
the  ftomach  with  this  broth. 


Fit  for  fwine. 

Then  a  little  flefh  of  tripe  oi 
an  old  cow  isftrved  up>  but 
^027<wf  fifteen  days  before. 


It  ftinks,  then. 

Yes,but  a  remedy  is  applied. 

What  ? 

I  will   tell  you,   but  I  fear 
left  you  flwuld  imitate  it. 
Jy  A,  Scilicet 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


*39 


A.  Scilicet. 
B.  Mifcent  ovum 
calefa&a  aqua  ;  eo  ju- 
re perfundunt  carnem  ; 
ita  oculi  falluntur  ma- 
gis  quam  nares.  Nam 
factor  erumpit  per  om- 
nia. Si  dies  r e quire t 
efum  pifcium,  inter- 
num /r^i  auratee  #^0- 
nuntur,  nee  A#  magnae, 
czm  rintjeptemaut  otlo 
convivae. 

A.  Nihil  prazterea  ? 

B.  Nihil  wz/f  ille 
faxeus  cafeus. 

A.  Narras  mihi  no- 
vumLucullum  ifedqui 
potmt  tarn  exilis  appa- 
ratus juffcere  tot  con- 
vivis,  prafertim  refec- 
tis  nullo  jentaculo  ? 

B.  Imo  7z<?ya'i  infei- 
ens, focrus9  nufus,  mu 
nor  natu  filiiis,  famu/a, 
et  aliquot  parvuli  ale- 
bantur  ex  reliquiis  ejus 
convivii. 

A.  Tu  yitidem  aux- 
ifti  02*0  01  admiration- 
em,  no n  adentijli. 

B.  Vix  poffum  def- 
er Here  iftuc  tibi%  nifi 
j^nwy  depinxero  0rafa- 
nem  convivii. 

A,  Pinge  igitur. 


Yes. 

They  rj*ix  an  egg  with  warm 
water  ;  with  that  fauce  they 
fprinkle  the  flefh  ;  Jo  the  eyes 
are  deceived  more  M#/z  the  nof- 
trils.  ifyr  the  ilink  breaks 
through  all.  If  the  day  re- 
quires the  eating  of  fijh>  forne- 
times  three  giltheads  areferved 
up,  nor  thefe  great  ones,  z^rc 
there  are  /even  or  «gA*  guefts, 


Nothing  be/ides  ? 
Nothing  but  that  Jlony  cheefe. 

You  tell  me   of   a  new  Lu- 
cullus  :  But   how  £0&/af  fuch 
fender  provitionfujficv  fo  ma- 
ny guefts,  efpecially   refrefhed 
•with  no  breakfaf  ? 

Nay,  thai  you  may  not  be  ig- 
norant, a  mot  her  inlawed  daugh- 
ters n law,  the  younger  fon,  a 
maid,  an&fome  little  ones  were 
fed  out  of  the  remains  of  that 
meal. 

You  indeed  have  increafed 
my  admiration,  not  taken  it 
a  way. 

I  can  hardly  defcribe  that  ta 
you,  unlefs  firf  1  paint  the  or* 
der  of  the  feafh 


Paint  it  then. 


A,  Antronius 


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OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


B.  Antronius  0^2*?*- 
bat  primum  locum,  nifi 
quod  ego  fedebam  dex- 
ter illi,  #<?/w/ extraordi- 
narily. E  regione  An- 
tronii,  Orthrogonus  ; 
Verpius  ajjidebat  Or- 
throgoni  ;  Strategust 
nationeGrtfc&,f,Verpio. 
Natu  7?tajor  filius  ajji- 
debat fittifter  Antronio. 
Si  quis  conviva  aecef- 
fit,  locus  dabatur  pro 
dignitate.  Primum  e~ 
rat  minimum  periculi 
vel  difcriminis  de jure  ; 
nifi  quod  fragnienta  ca- 
fei  bubulini  natabant 
in  difcis  procerum.  Cce- 
terum  quoddam  vallum 
fiebat  exferme  quatuor 
phialis  vini  aqucequetut 
nemo  ^pofiet  attingere 
quod  erat  appofuum, 
prater  t res \  ante  quos 
patina  ftabat ;  nifi  quis 
fujtinuijfet  effe  impu- 
dentijjimus,  ettranfilire 
fepta.  Nee  tamen  ea 
patina  m&ntbat  diu  ; 
Jed  tollebatur  ?nox,  ut 
aliquid  fupereflei/a  tfr-. 
ilia. 

A.  Quid  igitur  ede* 
bant  reliqui  ? 

B.  DelictabacHur/w^ 
mure. 


Antronius  had  the  firft  place  f 
but  that  I  y^/  upon  his  right 
hand,  as  an  extraordinary  per- 
fon.  Over  againjl  Antronius 
Orthrogonus  J  Verpius  fat  by 
Orthrogonus  ;  Strategus,  bj 
nation  a  Greek,  by  Verpius. 
His  eldejl  {on  fat  on  the  left 
hand  of  Antronius.  If  an) 
guefls  came  in,  a  place  \y as  giv- 
en him  according  to  his  worth. 
Firft  there  was  very  little  of 
danger,  or  hazard  as  to  the 
broth  ;  but  that  pieces  cfekceft 
made  of  cow's  mi\k  fzv am  in 
the  diflies  of  the  great  folks. 
But  tf  certain  rampart  was 
madt out  of  comrnenly  four  i/z- 
tf/j  of  wine  #W  water,  that  ?*0- 
^>0*/y  could  touch  what  ttftfj 
ferved  up,  be/ides  three,  before 
whom  the  difh*  ftood  ;  unlefs 
any  one  would  have  en'du red  to 
be  t/(?ry  impudent,  and  /4  /ra^ 
0#<?r  the  hedge.  Afar  yet  aW 
that  difk  flay  long,  £ztf  was 
taken»  aw-ay  pYefefttiy,  that  fdrrii~ 
thing  might  be  left  for  the  Jam- 
il/, 


What  $<m  did  the  reft  eat  ? 

They    feafted    after     their 
fafhibn*  'A.  Qui? 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


f4f 


A  Qui? 

B.  ivlacerabant  ilium 
irgillaceum  panem  vino 
oelujhffimx  fsecis. 

A.  Tale  convivium 
oportuit   efle   perbreve. 

B.  Frequenter  pro» 
lixius  hora. 

A.  Oui  potuit  ? 

B.  Sublatis  mox,  ut 
'dixit  quae  non  carthant 
periculo,  cafeus  appo- 
nebcjtur,  unde  erat  nul- 
lum pericuium,  w^quif- 

I  quam  abrade  nt  quid- 
quam  efcano  cultello. 
Ilia  prwc Lara  faex  man- 
ebat,  et  fuus  cujufque 
pani$.  Atque  fabulce 
mifcebantur  tuto  inter 
j?*rc  bellaria.       Interim 

fcnatus  fceminarum 
prandebat. 

A.  Quid  operas  inte- 
rim ? 

B.  Habebant  «Z/foY 
commune  nobifcum  s 
prandebant  ac  coena. 
bant  fuis  horis. 

A.  Verum  cujufmodi, 
apparatus  ? 

B.  I  flue*/?  tuum  <#- 
vinare. 

A.  At  A<?ra  vix  fuffi- 
cit  Germanis  in  jenta- 
culum,  tantundem  in 
merendam,  fef'quihora 
in  prandinm,  tfW  horae 
2«  can  am  ;  ac  »t$  ex- 
pleantur  affatim  ele- 
ganti  t/fotf,    bonis  car» 


How? 

They  (baked  /£<z/  clay  bread 
in  wine  of  very  old  dregs. 

Such  afeajl  mud  have  been 
very  Jliort. 

Often   longer  than   an  hour, 

How  could  it  ? 
Thefe  things  being  taken  a- 
way  prefently,  as  IJaid,  which 
did  not  xo ant  danger,  the  chefe 
was  fet  on  ,from  whence  there 
was   no    danger,    left   any  one 

Jkould \ [crape  any  thing  zoith  an 
e a ting  knife,  Thatfamous  dregs 

[laid,  and  every  one's  bread. 
And  flories  were  mixed  fife ly 
among  thefefweetmcats.  In  the 
mean  time  /^  parliament  oi 
women  dined, 


What  did  f&j  work  folks  \* 
themean    time  ? 

They  had  nothing  common 
with  us  :  they  dined  and  Tap- 
ped a/  their  own  hours* 

But  of  what  fort  was    the 
provifion. 
That  is  your  part  to  gufs. 

But  an  hour  hardly  fuffices 
the  Germans  for  breakfaft,  as 
much  for  drinking,  an  hour  and 
a  half  for  dinnerk  twto  hours 
for  [upper  ;  and  «w/^/i  they  be 
filled  plentifully  with  fine  wine, 
good  flefli  and  f/Ji,  they  forfake 
their'  mqfler,  3nd  7?y  into  t1 
nibus 


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OPULENTIA  SOR0IDA. 


nibus  ac  pifcibus,  defe- 
runt  patronum,  ac  fu~ 
giunt  in  bellum.    • 

B.  Cuique  genti  eft 
fuus  m§s.  Irali  impen- 
dent minimum  gui<£% 
malunt  pecuniary  quam 
voluptatem  i  et  I  tint 
fobrii  natura  %uo«]ue, 
«0/2  foium  inflituto. 

A.Nunc  projeclo  non 
raircr  /<?  redvffe  nobis 
ta/tt  exilem,  led  demi- 
ror  te  rediiffe  omnino 
vivum,  precfertim  cum 
affuevijfes  antea  azto'j, 
perdicibus,  turturibus, 
et  pka/ianis. 

B.  Plane  perieram, 
«?yf  remedium  repertum 
fuijfet. 

A.  Res-  «a/i!  agitur, 
ubi  e/2  opus  to/-  reine- 
diis. 

B.Effeceram  z*/  quar- 
ta  ^<3z\$"  pulli  tfi&w  dare- 
tur  raira  jam  languef- 
centi,  in  fingula  con- 
vivia. 

A.  Nunc  incipies  vi- 
vere. 

B.  Non  admodum. 
Exiguus  pullus  emeha- 
turs  ne  multum  inapen- 


war. 


Every  nation  has  its  cwH 
way.  The  Italians  bejiczo  very 
little  upon  tht  throat,  they'ha^ 
rather  hzstmoney  than pleqju re; 
and  they  <2n?fober  by  nature  too, 
not  only  by  cuftom* 

Now  /7 'uly  I  do  not  wonder 
that  yeu  are  returned  to  us  fo 
thin,  but  /  wonder  that  you 
are  returned  at  ail  a-live,  ^/#£- 
£Ztf//|when  }^z/  a^r€  accujtomtd- 
before  to  <f££<?/?j,partridges,^£« 
£0/^,  and  pkeafants* 

I  had  certainly  perifhed  #«* 
/gft  a  remedy  A#i  been  found 
out. 

The  matter  u  ?7/  managed, 
where  there  is  ft^d?  5/"/^  many 
remedies. 

1  had  prevailed  that  a  fourth 
part   of  a  pullet  boiled  mould 
be  given  me,   now   langmjhmg. 
tor  every  meal. 

Now  you will  begin  to  live. 


Not  i^ry  much.      A  fmall 

pullet  jzxzj   bought,  left  wz/cA 

mould  be  expended  ;  of  which 

dcretur  ;  cujujmodi  fex  jort  fix  would  not   fujfice  one 

nonfufficerent  uni  Po-    Polander,  0/  a  goodjlemach  for 

breakfaft.     Afar   <##  they  give 

meat  to  it  when  bought,^/?  $<?r<? 

w?VA/  W0/£<?  anything  of  charge. 

Wherefore*  winger  a  l«g  of  it 

Quart 


lono  ^0/n  ftwnachi    in 
jentaculum.      Afo  afa- 
bant   cibum 
ejfet     quid 


empto,   ?ie 
impeBdti, 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


*43 


ljuare  ala    aut  poples 

Yne&us  macie,  U  femi- 

Livus  coquebatur.     Je- 

leur    dabatur  jilio  Or- 

Ithrogoni  infanti.     Mu- 

Jlieres    autem  ebibebant 

■jus  fcmel  atque  iter urn , 

J  nova  aqua  inluhjubin- 

\de.     Itaque  poples  ve- 

niebat  ad    me     ficcior 

pumice ;    et     incipidior 

quovis      putri      ligno. 

Jus  erat  nihil  aifi  mera 

aqua. 

A.  Et  tamen  audio 
genus  avium  efTe  z7/?£ 
«opiofiffimum,  */  ele- 
gans  et  vile. 

B.  Eft  prorfus,  fed 
pecunia  eft  carior  illis. 
A.  Dedifti  fatis  pce- 
narum,  etiamji  occidif- 
fes  Romanum  Pontifi- 
eem,  #?//  fi  minxiJJes  ad 
fepulchrum  ^zz/2  Pe- 
tri. 

B.  Sed  audi  reli- 
<yixxmfabulm.  Sciseffe 
in  quaqua  hebdomada 
^quinque  dfej,  quibus 
vejamur  caraibus. 

A.  Nimirum. 

B.  Itaque  emebant 
duntaxat  duos  pullos. 
Die  jfovi  fingebant  Je 
oblitos  emere,  nevel Qp- 
ponerent  totum  pullum 
€•  die,  vel  aliquid  Jk~ 
pere/et. 

A,  «Nae  ijle  Antroni- 


msrtified  with  leannefs,  and 
half  alive  was  boiled.  The  liv- 
er was  given  to  the  Jon  of  Or- 
throgonus  an  injant.  But  the 
women  Jupped  of  the  broth 
once  and  again,  new  water  be- 
ing poured  in  now  and  then. 
Wherefore  the  kg  came  to  me 
drier  than  a  pummxce  ftone,  and 
more  injipid  than  any  rotten 
wood.  The  broth  was  nothing 
but  mere  water. 


And  yet  I  hear  thatjswl  is 
there  very  plentiful,  and  fine 
tfttd?  ckeap. 

It  is  indeed,  but  money  h 
dearer  to  them. 

You  have  fuffered  punim- 
ment  enough,  although  you 
had  killed  the  Roman  Pontiff, 
or  if  you  had  pijjed  againft  the 
fepuichre  of  St.  Peter. 

But  hear  the  reft  ofthejtory* 
You  know  there  are  in  every 
week  five  days,  upon  which  we 
eat  flefh. 

Yes. 

Wherefore  they  bought  only 
*&;<?  pullets.  On  Thurfday  they 
pretended  M^y  forgot  to  buy 
one,  left  either  theyjhould  Jerve 
up  a  whole  pullet  that  day,  <?r 
foraethingT^/^  be  left. 

Truly  ^/Antroniusfla^^ 
us 


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OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


us  fuperat  Plautinum 
Eucltonem*  Sed  quo 
remedio  confulebas  vi- 
ta pifcariis  diebus**? 

B.Dederam  negotium 
cuidam  tmico,  ut  emeret 
tria  ova  mihi  meo  are  in 
fingulos  dies,  duo  in 
prandium, unum  incce- 
nam.  Sed  heic  quoque 
fceminae  pro  recentibus 
care  emptis  fupponebant 
feraiputria.  Ut  crede- 
rempr&clare  mecurn  ac- 
tus ,  fi  effet  unum  ex  tri- 
bus  quod  poffet  edi. 
Tandem  emeram  et  u- 
trem  purioris  vini  mea 
pecuma  s  caeterum  mu- 
lieres  affrafia  fera,  intra 
paucos  dies  exforbue- 
runt,  Antronio  non  ad- 
medurn  irato. 

A.  Itane,  tiullus  erat 
illic,  qui  miferefceret 
tui  ? 

B. Miferefceret !  Imo 
videbar  Mis  quifpiam 
gluto  et  helluo,qu\  unus 
devorarem  tantu?n  cibo- 
rum.  Itaque  Orthrogo- 
nus  admonebat  mejii- 
linde,  ut  haberem  ra- 
tionem  ejus  regionis  ; 
et  confulerem  mea.  in- 
columitati  ;  et  com- 
memorabat  aliquot  npf- 
trates,  quibus  edacitas 
conciliaffet  illic^  aut 
moiteni,    aut  aliquem 


Phutm\  Euclio.  But  by  Zuhat 
remedy  did  you  provide^r  lift 
on  fifli  days  ? 

I  gave  a  charge  to  a  certain 
friend,  that  he JJiould  buy  three 
eggs  forme  with  my  own  money 
for  every  day,  two  for  dinner, 
one  for  fupper.  But  here  like- 
wife  the  women jW  frefh  ones 
dear  bought  put  me  half  rotten 
ones.  That  I  thought  they  dealt 
well  zoith  me,  it  there  was  one 
oj  three  that  could  be  eaten.  ^* 
length  I  bought  likewife,  a  keg 
0/^  purer  wine  r^zV/i  my  <?a;ra 
money  j  but  /Ae  zso?nen  having 
broken  /A*  /W/f,  in  a  few  days 
d?r£&/  it  off,  Antronius  not  being 
very  angry. 


Ay,  was  there  none  there  that 
pitied  you  ? 

Pitied  !  Nay  I  feemed  to  them 
fame  glutton,  and  agormandiz? 
er,  who  alone  devoured  Jo  much 
meat.  Therefore  Onhrogonus 
advifed  me  720z#  ^w^  then  to 
have<z  regard  to  that  country, 
tfttd?  take  care  of  my  fecurity  ; 
and  he  mentioned  J/bwe  of  our 
countrymen,  upon  whom  glut- 
tony Aaaf  broitglit  there  <i*Aer 
death,  <?r  fome  very  grievous 
diftemper.  When  he  faw  me 
prop  up  my  poor  body  with 
Ibme  dainties  which  the  apotke- 
gtavijjvnum 


OPULENTIA  SQRDIDA. 


H5 


grdvijjtmim  morbum. 
Cum  is  vide  ret  me  ful- 
cire  c&rpufculum  qui- 
bufdam  deliciis,  quas 
fharmacopolce  _  vendi- 
•tant  illic  ex  pineis  nu- 
cleis,  aut  peponum, 
melonumque,  fractum  et 
afliduis  laboribus  et 
inedia,  et  jam  etiam 
morbo,  fubornat  rnedu 
-cum,  amicam  miki  ac 
familiar  em,  ut  perfua- 
deat  moderationem  vic- 
tus.  Egit  hoc  rnecum 
diligenter  ;  ?noxque  fen- 
iifubornatum,  nee  ref- 
pondi  tamen.  C&;#  a- 
geret  idem  raecum  ac- 
•curatius,  nee  faceret  fi- 
nem  admonendz,  die 
flz/Az,  inquarn,  eg  regie 
inr,  loqueris  iflhac  fe- 
rio  <2?2  joco  ?  Serio,  in- 
quit,  gttz'rf  igitur  fua- 
des  ut  iaciam  ?  Abftine 
a  ccenis  mi  to  turn  ;  et 
tztfV/^  vino.  2^  mininum, 
■dimidium  aquce.  Rifl 
/?  irftc/g  r  « ;#  conjiliu  m .  S  i 
c  a  pis  me.  extindum,  ef- 
let  #20™  huic  corpuf- 
culo,  */  raro  ^  exiii,  et 
fubtiliflrmis  /piritibus, 
abftinere  velfemel  a  cce- 
na.  Habeo  idcompertum 
toties  z£/i  r<r,  ut  non  li- 
Peat  experiri  itemn. 
Quid  autem  cenjes  futu- 
ium,yf  fie  pranfus  tan- 

N 


omVifell^r^  of  pine  kemels,0r 
of  cucumbers,  and  melons,  be- 
ing broken  both  with  continual 
fatigues  and  fa/ling,  and  .«00; 
a!fo  with  a  difiemper,  he  pro- 
cures a  doctor,  a  friend  to  ?neP 
and  acquaintance,  to  perfuade 
me  to  <z  moderation  of  diet.  £fe 
treated  upon  this  &'z7/z  ?#<?  dili- 
gently ;  and  prefently  I  per- 
ceived he  was  put  upon  it ;  yef  I 
did  not  aniwen  When  he  treat- 
ed upon  the  fame  thing  with  me 
more  accurately,  and  did  not 
make  an  end  of  advifing  me9 
tell  me%  fay  I,  cxcellentfzr,  do 
you  fay  thefe  things  in  earned, 
or  in  jeft  ?  //2  earnefl,  fays  he* 
WAa/  then  <^0  j\9«  advifc  me  to 
do  ?  Abftain  from  flippers  #//<?- 
gether  j  and  £^  to  your  wine, 
at  leaft,hz]f  water*  I  laughed 
at  Azj  famous  advice.  If  _y0& 
d^V<?  to  have  me  dead, it  would 
be  death  to  this  poor  body,  ^<?tfi 
thin  rt7?<i  fpare,  and  of  very 
fubtile  /pints,  to  abftain  £&i 
0#ce  from  i  upper.  I  have  found 
that  fo  often  by  experience,  that 
I  have  no  mind  to  try  again. 
And  what  do  you  /^??zi  would 
be,  ifwkzn  I  have  fo  dined  1 
Jhould  abftain  from  fupper  ? 
And  do  you  order  water  to  be 
added  to  fuck  wine  :  As  though 
it  -were  not  better  to  drink  pure 
water  than  dreggy.  Nor  do  I 
doubt  but  Orthrogonus  bid  you 
fay  this.  77?*  doclor  fmjled^R^ 
qualified  his  advice*  I  do  not 
pcre?n 


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OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


4?erem  a  coena  ?  Et  ju- 
tes aquam  addi  ta^z  tf£- 
??<??  Quafi  /z^A2  prcejla- 
retb'ibete  puram  aquam 
cjuam  foeculentam.  Nee 


fay  /A<?/£  things,  quoth  he,  moji 
learned  Gilbert,  that  I  would 
re  (train  you  from  (uppers  alto- 
gether ;  you  may  tajle  an  egg, 
tftfd'  drink  once  ;  for  fo  /  niy* 

dubito  quin  Orthrogo-  f elf  live.     An  egg  is  boiled  tor 

nus  jvjferet     te   /tfgwz    fupper,  J*  take  from  hence  half 

li?ec.     M^ci/fubrifit,    of  the  yolk,  I  give  the  reft  /0 

,£/;  mitigavit   conJiliu?n.    my Jon ,  by  and  by  having  drank 

Non  Ioquor  /2£x,inquit,    half  a  glafs  qfzvine,  I  ftudy  ft4jj 

dotlijfime  G\\bene,quodt  late  at  night, 

arceam  te  a  ccenis  in  to- 

/um  j  ,  licebit  gujlare  o- 

vura  et  bibere  Jemel,  fie 

enim  ipfe  vivo*     Ovum 

.coquitur  in  ccenam,  ca- 

fio  inde   dimidium   vi- 

tclli,  do  reWquumJilw, 

iHox  hauflo  f<  micyatho 

pint*  ftudeo  in  muUani 

710  clem. 

A.  -Num.     medicus 

praedicabat  ijihac  vera  ? 
B.  Veriflima.     A^z.w 

ipfc  ambulans  forte  /?cr 


Did  the  doftorfay  theft  things 
truly  ? 

Very  truly.     For  I   myfejf 

walking  by   chance   a/tftf^  /Ad 

#?tf77Z  redibam  ajacro,  Jlreet,  w zs  com'mg f rem  prayers, 

et    comes     admonnerat    asd  my  companion  had  told  me 

thatjhe  doclor  lived  there  J  I 


medicuin  habitare  i/lic  J 
libuit  videre  illius  rrg"- 
^«w,  era*  astern  do  mm- 
icus  dies  :  pul/avi  fo- 
xe&,apertce/unt  ;  afcen- 
di,  ojfendo  medicum 
frandentem  cum  fiiio,^ 
eodem  Jamulo  :  appa- 
ratus £T<ztf/  duo  tfz/#,  ni- 
Jiil  pratcrea* 

A.  Homines oportuit 
^{Te  exfangues. 

fi.  Jmo  tfwitf  erant 


lived 
had  a  mind  /oj?£  his  kingdom, 
and  it  was  the  Lord's  day  ;  / 
knocked  at  the  door,  z/  was  0- 
peneds  I  went  up,  1  find  the 
doctor  dining  with  his  fon,  tf«^/ 
the  lame  hisfervant  :  The  pro- 
wiiion  teas  two  ^ip,  nothing 
hefides* 

The  men  mud  have    teen 
void  of  blood. 

Nay  both  were  */~4  £00^  /?'/?£ 
pulchre 


OPULENtlA-  SORDIDA-. 


H/ 


\pulchre  habito  corpore, 
\vwido  ac  rubido  colore, 
lactis  oculis. 

A.  Eft  vix  credibile. 
B.  At  ego  narro  co~i- 
pertiftima.  Nee  ille  fo- 
lus  vivit  ad  ijlum  mo- 
dum,  fed  comp lures  a- 
iii,  et  dare  imaginibus, 
et  re  lauta.  Polypha- 
gia et  pcfypofar  crede 
mi  hi,  eft  res  confuetu- 
dinis,  non  naturae.  Si 
quis  ajj'atfuit  paulatim, 
projiciet  cO  tandem,  ut 
faciat  idem  quod  Milo, 
j  2«  a  b  f u  mp  fit  /  0  /  #># 
bovem  eodem  die. 

A.  Irnmortalem  De- 
ism !  o?  licet"  /wen  va- 
le tud  in  em  tarn  parvo 
vi£lu,  quantum  impen- 
diorum  per  it  Germa- 
nis,  Angus.,  Danis,  et 
Polonis  ? 

B.  Plurimum  hand 
dubie,   et    quidtm    non 

fine  gravi  detnmenlo 
turn  valetudims,  turn 
ingenii. 

A.  Scd  £K2</  ob Ra- 
bat y#0  minus  ille  vie- 
tus  fufficerit  tihi  ? 

B.  Quia  a/fueveram 
diverfis,  e/  erat  jerum 
jam   mutare  confuetu- 


body,  0/^  /iWy  and  ruddy  col- 
or, with  cheerful  eyes. 

It  isjearce  credible. 

Eur  /  tell  you  things  I  know 
very  weil.  Nor  does  he  aiono 
live  after  that  manner,  but  ma- 
ny others  b&th  nobly  defend- 
ed, and  of  a  good  eftate.  Much 
eating  and  much  drinking,  be- 
lieve me,  is  4  thing'oi  cuflom, 
not  nature,  -£f  any  one  would 
afe  h  1  infelf  by  d egr  ee %:hezvou Id 
improve  to  that  degree  at  I  a  ft, 
that  he  might  do »  the  Fame  Mai 
Milo  did,  20/20  eat  up  a  xvhoh 
ex-  in  the  Fame  day. 

Immortal  God  !  If  it  be 
poffible  /0  maintain  one's 
health  a?z/A  /0  ft/?/*  victuals, 
/2020  w&c/^  charge  z j  loft  hy  the 
Germans,  Eng}\fhr  Danes  and 
Poles  ? 

Very  much,  no  doubt,  and 
indeed  not  without  grievous 
prejudice  both  to  '//^  health, 
and  alfo  &  #  man  s parts* 

But  fcj&rt  hindered  //2«//  <fo* 
would  not  f office  you. 

Becaufe    /  /W  ^^»  accuf 

tamed  to  different   things,   and 

it  was  /0.0   /Vz/e  then  /0  change 

dinem 


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OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


dinem  ;  quanquam  ex- 
iguitas  ciborum  non 
tarn  offendebatw^quam 
corruptio.  Duo  ova 
poterantfuffictre,  fifu- 
iffent  recens  nata  :  cy- 
athus  vini  erat  fatis, 
»ifi  vapida  faex  ^/#r£- 
tur  pro  vino  :  <&W- 
iiU77i  panis  aluiffet,x\\\\ 
argilla  dixretm  pro  pa- 
ne. 

A.  Antronium  ^ 
zdeofordidum  in  tan- 
tis  opibus  ! 

B.  Arbitror  ejus  ecu- 
fum  non  fuiffe  intra 
o&oginta  millia  duca- 
lorurn.  Nee  erat  a/Za^ 
annus,  quo  lucrum  mil- 
It  aucatorurii  non  acce- 
deret,  utdicam  parafji- 
me. 

A.  Sed  nuvi  juvsnes 
illi,  qiabus  hxc  para- 
bantur,  utebantur  ea- 
dem.  parfimenia  ? 

B.  Utebantur  ;  fed 
domi  duniaxatt  foris 
liguriebant,  fcortaban- 
tur,  lu  deb  ant  alea. 
Cumque  pater  gravare- 
tar  impendere  terunci- 
um  in  -gratiam  honej- 
tijjimorum  conviva- 
rurn3  fa  vines  perdebaht 


a  cuflom,  although  the  fmali 
quantity  of  the  vicluals  did 
not  fo  much  offend  ?ne  as  the 
corruption.  Two  eggs  might 
havefufficed,  if  they  ha  d  been 
new  laid :  A  glafs  of  wine  was 
enough,  but  that  ^<3f  dregs 
&'tf j  gzi/dw  me  for  wine  ;  ifo/^ 
a  loaf  would  have  Jed  me,  but 
that  c/^y  was  given  me  for 
bread. 

That  Anironiusjhould  be  fo 
fordid  in  fo  much  wealth. 

I  believe  /n'j  £/?#/£  was  not 
lefs  than  eighty  thoufand  du- 
cats. Nor  was  there  any  year, 
ik  which  the  ga:n  0/  £  //20a- 
fand  ducats  was  not  added  to 
it,  to  fpeak  very  fparingly. 


But  whether  or  no  did  the 
young  menfor  whom  this  was 
provided,  uie  the  fame  frugali- 
ty. 

They  did  ufe  it  ;  but  at  home 
only  ,abroad  they  fared  daintily, 
whored,  played  at  dice.       And 

hereas  the  father  thought 
much  to  expend  a  fafrthing  oh 
the  account  of  the  mo  ft  honor* 
able  guefts,  the  young  fellow * 
lofkfbmetimes  fixty  ducats  in 
one  night  at  dice. 

interdum 


OPULENTIA  SORDIDA. 


*a 


\inlerdum  fexaginta  du- 
I  latoj  una  notle  alea. 

A.  S\c  folent    perire 
I  qua  corraduntury^r^z- 

Dus.  Verum  incolu- 
mis  e  tantis  periculis, 
quo  te  confers  ? 

B.  Ad  vetufFimum 
Bontuberniuvi  Gallo- 
rum,  farturus  quod 
d'\{$ena\\ faftum  ejl  il-- 


So  thofe  things  life  to  be  Ioflt 
a^zVA-  is  fcraped  together  £y 
covetoufnefs.  But  now  that 
you  are  efcaped  0#  0/70  grai*- 
dangers*  whither  do  you  betake 
yourfelf? 

To  a  very  old  c/&5  of  French- 
men, to    make    up  what  lofs    I 
fuffered  there. 


1^5&t 


DILUCULUM. 


A.OOD'IE  volebam 
XJl  te  conventum, 
yW  negabaris  <^  domi, 
B.  Non  mentiti  funt 
omnino.  Non  erara 
quidem  tibi,  fed  erarn 
ta//z  mihi  maxime. 

A.  Quid  anigmatis- 
eft  z'y?z*af  ? 

B.  Nofti  Mud  vetufr 
proverbium,  non  dor- 
mi  o  omnibus,  Necjo- 
cupHtficvz  fugit  te  cui 

N£ 


TODAY  /  was  defrous  to 
have  met  with  you,    but 
you  were  denied  to  be  at  home. 
They  did  not  lie  altogether, 
I  was  not  indeed  for  you,  ^z//  I 
was  then  for  myfelf  very  much,' 

What  riddle  is  Ma/  ? 

You  have  known  //2^   old 

proverb,  I  do  not    deep  for  all 

?ne/i.     Nor  afo^  the  j ejl  of  Na- 

fica  efcape  you,  to^whom  defir- 

volenV. 


15° 


D1LUCULUM. 


volenti  inviftre  famili- 
arem  Ennium  cum  an- 
cilia,  juflu  heri,  negaf- 
fet  effe  domi  :  Najica 
fenfit  et  difceffit.  Caz- 
terum  ubi  Ennius  vi- 
ciffim  ingreffus  domum 
Najica,  rogaret  putrum 
jiiim  efjet  intus.  Najica, 
clamavitdfe  conclavi,m- 
quiens,  non  Jura  domi. 
Quumque  Ennius  a£W2- 
/a  voce  dixijjei,  impu- 
dens,  non  agnofco  te  to- 
quentan  ?  Imo,  inquit 
JNafica,  tu  impudenti- 
or,  qui  non  habesfde?n 
mihi,  aw  ego  credide- 
rim  tuse  ancillae. 

A.  Eras  f or  ta//is  oc- 
cupatus. 

B.  Imofuaviter  oti- 
ofus. 

A.  Rurfum   torques 
asnigmate. 

B.  Dicam  igitur  ex- 
planate.       A^£    dicam 

jicum  aliud     ^^^w  fi- 
cum. 

A.  Die. 

B.  Altum   dormie- 
bam. 

A. Quid  ais  ?    -Agai 
®£iava  Aer*  praeterierat 


rous  /0  vifd  his  friend  Ennius, 
when  M^  #*&?<?,  by  the  order 
of  her  majler,  denied  that  he 
was  at  home  ;  Najica  perceiv- 
ed it,  and  departed.  But  when 
Ennius  in  his  turn  entering  the 
houfe  oj  Najich,  aflced  the  boy 
whether  he  was  within.  Na- 
jica Ihouted from  the  parlor, 
faying,  I  am  not  at  home.  And 
when  Ennius  knowing  his 
voice, /aid,  you  impudent  fel- 
low, do  not  I  know  you  Jpeak- 
ing?  Nay,  fays  Nafica,  you 
are  more  impudent,  who  do 
not  give  credit  to  me,  whereas 
I  trujled  your  maid. 


You  were  perhaps  bufy. 
Nay,fweetly  idle. 

Again  jy^z/  trouble  me  with 
a  riddle. 

I  will  tell  you  //i<??2  plainly, 
Nor  will  1  call  a  fig  any  thing 
elfe  //to  a  fig. 

Tell  me. 

I  was  fall  afleep. 

What  fay  you  ?  But  the 
eighth  hour  h?d  paffed  then* 


D1LUCULUM. 


1$* 


jam,  cum  fol  furgat 
hoc  menfe  ante  quar- 
tern. 

B.  Libertnm  eft  foli 
per  me  quidem  furgere 
vel  media  nofte,  modo 
liceat  mi  hi  dormire 
ufque  ad  fatietatem. 

A.  Verum  nt  rum  if- 
tucaccidit  cafu,  an  efl 
confuetirio  ? 

B.  Confuetudo  prcr- 
fus. 

A.  Atqui  confuetudo 
rei  non  bonae  £#  pefli- 
rna. 

B.  Imo  nullus  fom- 


iuavior    quam 


nus    <?// 

poft  fole.ni    exortnm. 

A.  Quahora  tandem 
Mesrelinguere  leclum  ? 

B.  Inter  quartam  et 
nonam. 

A.  Spatium  fatis 
amplum.  Reginae  vix 
tot  horis  comuntur^a? 
unde  venijli  in  iftam 
eonfuetudinem  ? 

B.  Quia folemus  pro- 
forre  convivia  lufus,  et 
jocus  2 w  multam  notlem. 
Penfamus  id  difpendii 
xnatutino  fomno. 

A.  Vix  unquam  vi- 
di  hominem  perditius 
prodigum  te, 


whereas  the   fun   rifeth    this- 
month  before  the  fourth. 

4  It  is  ixtejor  the  fun  for  me 
indeed  to  xikeven  at  midnight, 
fo  that  it  be  allowed  me  to 
fatisfa£lion. 

But  whether  did  that  happen 
by  chance ,  or  zj  z/  a  cuftom  ? 

Cuftora  entirely. 

But  //*e  cuftom  of  a  thing 
?2^  good  z'j  very  bad. 

Nay  no  fleep  ti  pleafanter 
than  after  the  fun  is  rifen. 

What  hour  at  lafl  do  you 
ufe  to  leave  your  bed  ? 

Betwixt  the  fourth  and  the 
ninth. 

'  Time  long  enough.  Queens 
hardly  are  fo  many  hours-  a 
dreffing,  hut  how  came  you  in- 
to that  cuftom  ? 

Becaufe   zy<?  zz/£    to  prolong 
feafs,   games,    and  jefts     till 
late  at  mght.      We  make  up 
that  lofs  by  morning  fleep. 

I  fcarce  ever  faw  a  man 
more  pernicioufly  prodigal 
than  you. 

B.  Videtur 


J<5*  DILUCULUM. 

B.Videtur  mi  hi  par-  It  feems  to  me  frugality  rath- 

fimonia    magis    quam  tr  than   prodigality.     In    the 

profufio.     Interim    nee  mean  time    /  neither  confume 

abfume   candelas,     nee  candles,  nor  wear  clothes. 
detero  vcjles. 

A.    Praepoftera  jru-  Prepoflerou s  frugality    in- 

gaiitas  oui&em  Jtrv  are  deed   to  J'ave   glafs    that   you 

vitrum  ut  perdas  gem-  may   loofe  jewels.  That  jlAi* 

mas.     Ille  philofophus  lofopher  was   otherwife  mind- 

aliter  fapuit,    ^#2  roga-  ed,  2^/20  being  afked  what  was1 

ixxs  quidetteipretiqfijji-  the  niojl  precious   thing,    an- 

?;2W^z,  refpondit  tempus.  fwered  /z^.     Moreover,  Jince 

Porro  cum   conftet  di-  it  is  agreed  that  the  morning  is 

iuculum    eiTe    optimam  the  bejt  part  0/*^  &>/W£   day, 

partem    foiz^j  diei,    /?i  jytffc  /flr/e  to   loofe  what  is  M^ 

gaudes    perdere     quod  mojl  precious  in  the  molt  pre- 

eft      pretiojijjimum    in  cious  things 
pretiofiffima  re, 

B.An  hoc  perit^W  Is  that  loft,   which  is  given 

datur  cdrpufculo  ?  to  the  body  ? 

A.  Imo  detrahitur  Nay,  it  is  taken  from  the 
eorpufculo,  quod,  turn  body,  which  then  is  mojlfwect- 
fuavijjime  ajjiciturmax-  ly  affetled,  and  mo  ft  of  ail  re~ 

imeq ;   vegetatur,    cum  cruited,    when  it  is   refrefhed 

reficitur  tempeflivo  mo-  with  Jeafon able   and  moderate, 

deratoq  ;  fomno,ex  ccr-  Jltepy  and  is  Jlrengthened  with 

robatur  matutina  vigi-  morning  watching, 
lia. 

B.  Sed  eft  dulce  dor-  But  it  is  plea/ant  to  fleep. 
mire. 

A.  Quid  potejl.  efle  What  raw  be pieafant  to  one 
«eW^  fentienti  722/22/  ?  that  perceives  nothing  ? 

B.  Hoc  ipfum  eft  This  z/*ry  Mzw^  is  plea/art 
dulce  fenti're  nihil  mo-  tc  perceive  nothing  of  trouble, 
leftiae. 

A.Atquifunt  felici-  But  they  are  more  happy  in 

ores 


DILUCULUM. 


*<53 


ores  ijlo  nomine,  qui 
\dormiunt  in  fepul- 
Ichris  ;  nam  nonnun- 
Iquam     inf omnia     funt 

molefla  dormienti. 
B.  Aiunt  corpus  fa- 

ginari  maximt  eo  fom- 

no. 

A.  Ifta  eft  fagina 
glirium,  non  hominum. 
Animalia  quaz  parantur 
epulis  rcfte  faginantur. 
Ouorfum  attinet  homi- 
ni  accerfere  obefitatem, 
nifi  ut  incedat  *nuftus 
graviori  farcina  ?  Die 
mihi, Ji  haberesfamw 
lum  utrum  malles  obe- 
fum,  an  vegetum  et  ha- 
bilem  ad  omnia  mu- 
ni a  ? 

B.  At  qui  ncn  Jum 
famulus. 

A.  Sat  eft  attz'/h',quod 
malles  miniftrum  aptum 
officiis  quam  bentja- 
ginatum. 

B.  Plane  mallem. 
A.    At    Plato    dixit 

animum  horn  in  is  effe 
hominem,  corpus  eife 
nihil  aliud  quam  domi- 
-c  ilium,  aut  inftrumen- 
tum.  Tu  cent  fate- 
bens,  opinor,  animam 
effr.principalem  portio- 


that  refpefl  whojleep  in  their 
graves  ;for  fometimes  dreams 
are  troublejome  to  a  man  a- 
fleep. 

They  fay  that  the  body  is 
fattened  mojl  of  all  with  that 
fleep. 

That  is  the  fattening  of  dor ^ 
mice,  not  of  men.  Animals 
that  are  prepared  Jorfeafs  are 
rightly  fattened.  What figni- 
fts  it  for  a  man  to  procure 
fatnefs,  but  that  he  may  go 
loaded  with  a  heavier-  pack  ? 
Tell  me,  if  you  had  a  fervant  > 
whether  you  had  rather  have 
huii  fat,  or  lively  and  fiifor 
all fer vices \ 


But  I  am  not  a  fervant. 

It  is  enough  for  ?ne,  that 
you  had  rather  have  a  fervant 
fit  for  fervice  than  well  faU 
tentd. 

Indeed  I  had  rather. 
But  Plato  faid  that  the  foul 
of  a  man  is  the  man,  that  th* 
body  is  nothing  elfe  than  a 
houfe,  or  inftrument.  You 
however  will  confefs,  I  fup- 
pofe,  that  the  foul  is  the  pmn- 
cipal  part  of  man,  the  body  the 
fervant  of  the  mind. 

aem 


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DILUCULUM. 


ncm    kominis%    corpus 
miniflrum  animi. 
B.  Efotj&yk* 

A.  Cam  tibi  nolle s 
miniftrum  tarclum  ab- 
domine,  Jed  malles  a- 
gilem  et  alacrem,  cur 
pares  ignivum  et  obe- 
fum  minijlrem  animo  ? 

B.  Vincor  veris. 

-  A.  Jam  accipe  aliud 
difpendium.  Vt  ani- 
mus longe pr  aflat  cor- 
pcri,  €#  fateris  tf/w  an- 
irni  longe  prsecellere 
bona  corporis. 

B.  Die  is  pjrobabile. 

A.  Sed  inter  bona 
animi,  fapientia  tenet 
primam. 

B.  Faieor. 

A.  Nulla  pars  diei 
eft  utilior  ad  paran- 
dam  hanc,  unam  dilu- 
culum,  cum  fol  exori- 
ens  novus  adjtrt  v\go- 
rem  e/  alacritatem  0>;z- 
nibust  difcutitque  ??£- 
bulas  confuetas  exha- 
hari  e  ventriculo,  qua: 
(blent  obnubilate  &Qm 
micilium  mentis. 

B.  Non  repugno. 
A.    Nunc    fupputa 

mihi  quantum  erudi- 
tionis  pojjis  parare  tiki 


Let  it  be  fo,  if  you  will. 

Since  ^tfzz    would  noi  have  & 
fervant  heavy  with  a  great  bel- 
ly,  £&/   had    rather    have  on 
nimble  and    brfk,  why    dfo  j'0 
provide  a  lazy  £?z<^  Idifervan 
for  the  mind:? 

I  am  overcome  with  truth» 
Now  Atf/zr  another  lofs.  As 
M€  tfn*7z</  far  exeds  the  body,/*? 
you  confefs  that  the  riches  oi 
the  mindy^r  excel  //z<?  gtftfdl 
things  of  the  body, 

You  fay  what  is  likely. 

But  among  the  good  things 
of  the  in  if  id,  wijdom  has  the 
jirjl  place. 

I  conftfs- 

No  part  of  the  day  is  more 
ufeful  for  the  getting  of  this 
than  the  morning,  a//zf«  the 
fun  rifmg  Ire(h  brings  vigor 
<?//'/ brifknefs  /(5  #//  things,  and 
difli pales  tliejumes  that  ufe  /(7 
^<?  exhaled  out  of  the  flomach 
which  are  wont  A#  cloud  th< 
habitation  of  the  mind. 


I  do  not  fay  nay. 

Now  reckon  up  for  me  &i& 
?#&<:>#  learning  y<?B  might  g^t  to 
your/elf  in  thok  four  hours, 

i!li> 


DILUCULUM. 


*55 


i'ilis  quatuorhoris,quas 
f>erdis  intcmpejhvo 

fomno. 

B .  M  ultum  profeclo. 

A.  Expertus  fum 
•plus  effici  in  Jludus, 
^una  hora  matutina% 
xjuam  fn^z/j  poftmerid- 
ianis>z"dtywenullo  detri- 
ment o  corporis. 

B.  Audivi. 

A.  Deinde  reputa  H- 
Jud  ;Ji  conferas  infum- 
mam  ja&ur am fingulo- 
~jum  dierum,  quantus 
cumulus  fit  futurus. 

B.  Ingens  profeclo. 

A.  Qui  profundit 
jremmas  et    aurum    te- 

merejnahetur  prcdigus, 
et  accipit  tutorem  ;  qui 
perdit  iiozc  bona  tanto 
pretiofiora,  nonne  eft 
mu\totur piusyr  o&\gus? 

B.  Sic  apparet,  fi 
papendamus  rem  7£ff<2 
ratione. 

A. Jam  expende  illud 
quod  Plato  Jcripftt,  ni- 
hil ^  pulchrius,  gz&l 
amabilius  fapientia, 
qwxji  poffet  or???'  cor- 
poris 0£ulist  excitaret 
incredibilem      amorem 

J™; 

B.  Atqui  ?'/&  non 
jpoteft  cerni. 


which  you  lofe  z/z  unfeafonable 
Heep. 

Much  indeed, 

1  have  experienced  jVzaz: 
/W(?r<;  is  done  i»  gtzs'j'  jludies, 
in  one  hour  2«  the  mornings 
than  272  Mra?  in  the  afternoon, 
and  that  with  no  damage  to 
^he  body. 

I  have  heard  fo. 

Then  confider  that ;  i/"  you 
caft  up  into  a  fum  the  lofs  of 
every  day,  how  great  a  mafs  it 
will  be. 

A  huge  one,  truly. 

He  that  Jquanders  a&ay)t\*- 
els  and  gold  rajhly,  is  reckon- 
ed £  prodigal,  and  receives  a 
guardian;  he  that  throws  away 
Me  good  things^  y/zz/cA  more 
precious,  ij  not  he  much  w<?r/? 
fca n da-lo vjly  prodigal  ? 

So  it  appears,  if  we  exam- 
ine the  matter  by  right  reafon. 

Now  confider  that  which 
Plato  tt/n/,  that  nothing  is 
more  beautiful,  nothing  more 
lovely  M#?2  wi/dom,  which  if 
it  could  be  [ten  with  bodily 
<ry^j-,  would  raife  incredible 
iove  of  1  tf elf. 

But  that  cannot  befcen. 

A,  Fateor 


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DILUCULUM. 


A.  Fateor,  corporeis, 
oculis,  vemvi  cernitur 
oculis  animi,  qui  eft 
potior  pars  /lominis,  et 
ubi  eft  incredibilis  a- 
inor,  ibi  oportet  adjit 
fumma  voluptas,  quo- 
ties  animus  congredi- 
tur  cum  tali  amica. 

B.  Narras  verifimile. 
A.  Ito  «w?2£  et  com- 

muta  fomnum,  imagi- 
ne?n  mortis,  pro  hac 
voluptate,  ft  videtur. 

B.  Verum    interim 
nofturni  lufus  pereunt. 

A.  Perdit  plumbum 
bene,  qui  vertit  z»  au- 
rum.  Natura  tribuit 
noftem  fomno.  Exo- 
riens  Jol  rcvocat  cum 
emne  genus  animan- 
*ium,  turn  praecipue 
hominem,  ad  munia,  m- 
tce.  Qui  dor?nwnt,in~ 
quit  Paulus,  dormiunt 
nocle  ;  et  quikmiebni 
funt  tf^m  nocle.  Prtf- 
««dfe  quid  ejl  turpius* 
quam  cum  omnia  ani- 
Tnantia  expergifcantur 
turn  fole,  quddam  etia- 
?xn  falutent  .eum  ?z<?>2- 
Jww  apparentem,  ^/W 
adventantem  cantu  ; 
cum  elephantus  adoret 


I  confefs,  with  bodily  eyes, 
but  it  is  feen  a/zVA  the  eyes  of 
the  mind,  which  is  /Ae  better 
part  of  man,  and  tt/^erc  there  il 
incredible  love,  M*re  muft  fo 
the  greater  pleafure,  as  oft  as 
//z<?  wzffd!  confers  a;&M  fuch  a 
miftrefs. 

You  fay  what  is  likely. 

Go  now  and  change  fleep, 
//*£  image'  of  death,  y^r  this 
pleafure,  \i  itfeems  good. 


But  z/z  ^/2^  mean-  time  nightly 

/ports  are  loft. 

He  lofes  fez^/  well,  ^/£0  turns 
it  iWd  £0/^.  Nature  ^aj  given 
the  night  for  fleep.     Thenfing 

y?/?2  calls  upon  both  every  &*W 
of  living  creatures,  and  efpec- 
ially  man,  to  the  offices  of 
life.  They  who  fleep,  fays 
Paul,  fleep  in  the  night  ;  and 
they  who  are  drunk  are  drunk 
in  the  night.  Therefore  what 
2 j"  more  fcandalous  //2^/2  when 
#//  animals  awake  with  the 
h\n,fome  alfo  falute  him  w<?£ 
j<f/  appearing,^  coming, a;*//* 
tinging,  when  ^/4<?  elephant  ado- 
reth  zVz^  r2/^  fun,  *^a/  was 
ihould  fnore  a  long  time  alter 
tf/ie  rifing  of  the  fun  ?  As  of- 
ten as  that  golden  fplendor  £#- 
lightens  your  bedchamber,  does 
afientei* 


DiLUCULUM. 


'57 


orientem  folem,  komi- 
nem  fiertere  diu  poft 
cxortum{o\\&  ?  Quo  ties 
ilie  aureus  fplendor  it- 
•lujlrat tuum  cubiculu m, 
nonne  yidetur  expro- 
bare  dormienti,  jh.tlte, 
quid  gaudes  perder'e 
optima  m  partem  vi'tss 
tuce  ?  Non  hiceo  in  hoc 
lit  dormiatis  abditi.  fed 
ut  invigiletis  honefiif- 
iimis  rebus.  Nemo'  ao 
cendit  lucernam,  ut 
■dormiat,  fed  a/  agat 
aliquid  opens:  ^^ nihil 
aliud  quam  ilertis  ad 
hanc  lucernam  pul- 
cherrimam  omnium  ? 

B.  Declamas  fc/&. 

A.  Non  £<?//<?,  fed  ve- 
re.  Age,  non  dubito 
quin  audiveris  fre- 
quenter illud  Hefiode- 
u m ,  pa rfimon xa  e Rfero 
in  tundo. 

B.  Frequenti (Time, 
nam  vinum  ^//optimum 
in  medio  dolio. 

A,  Atqui  prima  pars 
vita,  nirnirum,  adolefi 
ctntia,  eft  optima. 

A.  Profeaqyfc  eft. 

B.  At  diluculum  eft 
A^  diei,  <7#0*/  adolef- 
centia  vita.  An  non 
faciunt  igiturbuXte.qui 
perdunt  adoUfcentiam 
nugis,  matutinas  horas 

Jbmno  ? 

o 


it  not  feem  to  upbraid  you 
fleeping,  thou  fool,  why  dojl 
thou  love  to  lole  the  bejf  part  3/" 
My  life  ?  I  do  not  (h'me/or 
this,  that  you  may  fUep  in  pri- 
vate, but  that  you  may  mind  the 
in  oft  honorable  things.  Nobody 
lights  a  candle  that  ^  mayfieej?9 
but  /i?/  he  may  doj&tf^work: 
../tf/?*/ do  ft  thou  nothing  elfe  bur. 
fnore  by  this  candle,  the  fine  ft 
gf* //  ? 


You  declafm  prettily. 
Not  t/rettily,  but  truly.  Well, 
I  doubt  not  but  you  have  heard 
frequently  that  of He fiod, /par» 
ing  is  £00  lutein  the  bottom. 

Very  frequent] y,for  wine  £r 
the  beft  in  the  middle  of  the 
cafk. 

But  the  fir  ft  part  m  life%  to 
wit,  youth,  is  M<?  £%//. 

Truly  y#  it  is. 
But  the  morning  is  thattb 
the  day 5  which  youth  is  to  life. 
Do  not  they  do  therefore  fool- 
ifhly,  who  lofe  M«r  jy0z^  in 
trifles;  their  morning  hours  ira 
Jeep? 

A,  Sic 


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DILUCULUM. 


A.  Sic  apparet. 

B.  An  eft  ulla  pof. 
•{efiio,  qua  fit  confer  en- 
da  cum  vita    hominis  ? 

A.  Ne  univerfa  gaza 
qui  dan  Perfarum. 

B.  An  non  odifles 
hominem  veh  em  enter, 
qui  poflet  ac  vellet  afe- 
curtare  vitam  $fit  ma- 
lis  artibus  ad  aliquot 
annos  ? 

A.  Ipfe  mallem  eri- 
pere  m/#/w  illi. 

B.  Verurn  arbitror 
pejores  et  nocentiores, 
qui  volentes  reddunt 
vi tarn  breviorem  fibi. 

A.  Fateor,.y£  qui  ta- 
les reperiuntur. 

B.  Reperiuntur  !  /- 
mo,  ornnes  fimiles     tui 

faaunt  id.  " 

A.  Bona  verba. 

B.  Optima.  Reputa 
fie  cum  tuo  anirno,  H08- 
.?/<*  Plimus  videlur  clix. 
ille  re&ifjime,  vitam  ^£ 
vigiliam,  <?^  hominem 
vivere  hoc  phinbus  ho- 
ris,  <7«t9  rnajorem  /?#r- 
fcM  tern  pons  impende- 
nt Audi  is  ?  So?nnus  e~ 
mm.  eft  quadam  mors. 
Uiide  et  fmgitur  venire 
ab  inferis,  et  dicitur 
germanus  mortis  ab 
Homero.  Itsque  quos 
fomnus  occupat,  nee 
censentur  inter    vivos ^ 


So  it  appears. 

Is  there  any  pofleffion  that 
to  be  compared  with    ike  hjt  < 
man  ? 

Not  all  the  treafure  indeed  < 
the  Perfians. 

Would  you  not  hate  the  ma 
very  much,  who  could  ah 
would  Jhorten  your  \iie  for  yc 
by  evil  arts  for  fome  years  ? 


I  had  rather  take   his 
from  him. 

But  /  think  them  worfe  tf^ 
more  mifchievous,  who  volun 
tarily  7»^  life Jliorter  to  ther 
felves. 

I    confefs  if  any  y?^/z  a 
found. 

Found!  AV/,  all  likeyou  do 
that. 

Good  words» 

Very  good.  Think  thirs 
ra'M  your  mind,  does  not  Pliny 
feem  to  have  fa  id  very  rightly^ 
that  life  is  a  watch,  and  that 
man  lives  fo  many  the  move 
hours,  by  how  much  the  greater 
part  of  his  time  he  fpends  in 
his  ftudies  ?  For  Jleep  is  a  /art 
of  death.  From'  whence  alfo 
it  is  pretended  /0  come  from 
hell,  £72^/  is  called  the  brother 
germ  an  of  death  by  Homer* 
Wherefore  thofe  whom  fleep 
Jeizelhave  neither  ihoughta??iong 
the  living,  nor  among  the  dead, 
but>^  rather  among  the    dead. 

nee 


DILUCULUM. 


*59* 


nee  inter  inoriuos%  fed 
tamen  potius  inter  mer- 
inos. 

An  Ita  videtur  omni- 
no. 

R .  Nunc  fubdu  cito 
rationem  mkit  quan- 
ta ?n  portionern  vitas  re 
j'ecent  fibi  qui  fmgulis 
diebus  per  aunt  tres  nut 
quatuor  horas  fomno. 

A.  Video  immenfam 
fu  tn  mam. 

B.  Nonne  haberes 
ale  a  mi jl  am  pro  deo,qui 
'pulfet  adjicerc  decum 
annos  fa  mm  re  vitce,  et 
re  v . > c a  re  /> )  v  veclic re m 
sst  item  ad  vigoren  dd o- 
1  c  f,  curiae  ? 

A.  Qui  J  ne  baSe- 
rem  ?  ^ 

B ♦  Sed  p  otes  p rae  fl  a  re 
,&?/■  tarn  diviuum  ben-e- 
un  hbu 

A    Qui  fie  7 

B.Quia  ofc/ri»  efi  ado- 
Ir/teniia  diei,  juvenilis 
fervet  ufq&e  ad  merid- 
iem. Af (m  v  i  r  i  I i s  fctrfa s , 
en ?  fu  c  c eel  i  {  wy^f  ra  p ro 
fenccla  ;  occajas  exci- 
p-j  t  8f$®  ram 9  vel  u  t 
mats  diei.  Parfmonia 
au tan  eft  magnum  vec- 
fjgal,  y?48?  nufquam  »&: 
jfa/quanl  0M,  An  non 
igitur  adjunxit /?fo in. 
gens  lucrum,  qui  jtfyfcl 
perdere  mag  nam  partem 


So  itfetms  indeed. 

Now  ca/i  up  the  account  for 
me,  how  great  #  part  of  life  //z<?y 
£*/  ft^v  from  themfelves,  rc^<? 
every  day  loft  three  #/•  four 
hours  in  fleep. 

I  fec^a  immenfi  furu. 

Would  not  you  reckon  $te 
alchyimji  for  a  God.  MtfJ  could 
add  ten  years  to  the  fit  it?  ^ 
\onrlfe,  and  call  back  advanc- 
ed c:ge  /a  roe  &JJg0/'  of  youth  ? 

^Why    fhould    I  not   reckon 
him  fo  T 

But  ymi  maj  do  /his  fo  divine 
a  B&ieffi  ft) 

Hmv  To  ? 

Bicailflfe   /&<?   morning    h  t)r 

!•   \det[i$ 

n  ffii  neetr,     £y  and  by  the 

fcsr  ^^K/i  comes 
the  ev-j^ng,  for  ol  i  a^e  ;  funfet 
fucceeds  *^$  tvempg  as  /At?  flfc^ 
or theday.  Ana j mo  tliiyis ogrcat 
rev enu e.  Lul  n'o  ■. 1 1  j i - ;  e  £ /  e# fr r 
than  A#'<?.  Piajs  rdt  he'"  there- 
fore procured  to  himjzifz  great 
gain,  w  ho  /^j  ceiij^i  ii  IbTfe  a 
^part  of  his  Wft\  and   that 


Wtff 


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DILUCULUM. 


vitfot  eamq  ;  optimam  P 

A.  Prand  teas- -vera. 
-  B.  Proinde  ro^um 
que  re  mom  a  videtur  ad- 
tt  a  du  m  i  xr  p  u  d  e  n  s ,  q  n  i 
<.  c  c  u  [an  t  n  u  tura  m ,  q  u  od 
nnierit  vitam  hotfiinis 
&m  anguftis  fpatiis, 
n/w  lpB Jponie  aiirpa* 
tent  ft  bi  untum.  <?*  <?<? 
quod  datum  cfl.  Vila 
>?/?  \qk$?l  fatis    caique, 

y?  difpenfetur  par  re, 
Nee  eft  mediocris  ^r<y- 

Jeclus,  fi  yw?i:  gerat 
(juceque  fuo  tempore, 
A  pr&ndio  vix    fumus 

jtmiho mines ,  cum  c<?/-- 
/wi"  onufturn  cz^zj  ag- 
gravat  mentcm.  Nee 
£/?  tut  urn  evocare  fpiri- 
lus  <2/>  officina  floina- 
chrij  peragentes  offici- 
um  ccncoclioms  ad  fu- 
periora  /^//0  minus  # 
cctna.  At  ^002.0  eft 
/0/#j  homo  matutinis 
/iorzs9  dum  corpus  eft 
habile  ad  omne  minif- 
terium,  ^w  alacer  ##- 
t/WMi1  viget*  dum  omnia 
org  ana  mentis  J  ant 
tranquilla  tt  ferena, 
dum  particula  divince 
KwxTtJpiralt  ut  ait  il- 
le,  ac  fapit  fuam  origi- 


You  fay  true. 

Wherefore  their  compliant. 
feems  very  impudent,  who  ac- 
cufe  nature  for  having  bound- 
ed the  life  of  man  within  jo 
narrow  a  compafs,  when  they 
<?/  M:^?r  <?»»«  accord  cut  off 
yfc?;;2  thewfelves  fo  much  (/ 
£/;o/  which  was  given  them. 
Life  ?i  long  enough  for  every 
cme,  z/  it  he  difpofed  oifpar- 
ingly.  Nor  2J  ?/!  a  mean  pro- 
ficiency, if  <z  ?#<z/i  does  every 
thing  in  its  time.  After  din<- 
n»r  we  are  fcarce  half  men, 
v.'hen  the  body  loaded  with 
meat  oppreflfes  the  mind.  Nor 
is  it  fafe  to  call  off  the  fpirits 
from  the  workhoufe  of  the 
ftomach,  performing  the  offi- 
ces of  concoclion  to  the  upper 
parts,  ;w «c^  lefs  #/^r  /upper. 
But  £  /72£#  is  wholly  man  ?ra 
/^^  morning  hours,  whilft  the 
body  is  Jit  for  all  {exvxce.whilfi 
the  cheerful  tkz'W  is  vigorous,. 
whilfl  all  M<?  organs  of  the 
mind  #r£  quiet  and  ferene, 
whilfl  the  particle  of  divine  air 
breathes^  as  a  certain  one  fays, 
##tf?  has  a  timSiure  of  its  orig- 
inal, and  is  carried  out  to 
honorable  things. 


nem,. 


DILUCULUM, 


i&i 


nem,  et   rapitur  ad  ho- 
ne jl  a. 

A.  Tu  concionaris 
quidem  eleganter. 

B.  Faber  aerarius  ob 
vile  luctllum  furgit  an- 
te lac  em,  et  amor  fapi- 
entiae  non  poteji  exper- 
gefacere  nos,  ut  audio- 
mus  fa-Item  folem  evo- 
cantem  ad  inazfhmabile 
lucrum.  Medici  fere 
non  dant  pharmacum 
n  if/  ci  i  1  u  c  u  1  o ,  z  Y/a  no- 
nint  aureus  horas,   ut 

fubveniat  corpori,  vos  ■ 
W0/z  novimus  eas  ut  16- 
cupletemus  et  fanemus 
an  i  m  u  m  ?  Q  u o d  ft  h  sec 
habent  leve  pondus  a- 
p.ud  le,  <*W2  quid  z//tf 
coeleflis  /fientia  apueb 
Solomoneni  loquatur. 
Qui  vigdavennt  ad* 
me,  inquit,  mane  £%&£« 
rtteatf  me.  7/2  myfhcis 
p/almis,  quanta  com- 
mendatio  matutinitem* 
par  is  f  Mane  prophet  a 
ex  to  I  lit  mfericordiam 
domini,  KM)?*  ejus  vox 
citditurim&neejus  depre- 
catijpi'&vemtdominum. 
lit  ^w</  Lucam  evange- 
\i&impppulus  expeiens 


You  preach  indeed  finely, 

A  Brazier /#r  poor  gflzw  ri- 
fes  before  light,  and  /Ae  /0<y£  of 
wifdom  cannot  awake  us%  that 
&;£  ?;?<2y  A^zr  at  lea  ft  the  fun 
calling  us  up  ^  inejlimablegzixi. 
Doctors  commonly  give  not. 
phyfic  but  in  the  morning  ; 
they  know  the  golden  hours, 
to  relieve  the  body,  d$  not  zoe 
knozo  them  to  enrich  and -cure 
/'// e  mind  ?  B u t  ?/ 1 h e fe  tbi ngs 
^<?<?  little  weight  with  you* 
/2^r  what  /A«^-  heavenly  ?/'?/- 
^w with  Solomon  /i^y.  They 
that  watch  for  me,  y&y.j  y%£,  in 
the  morning  fiiall  jind  me.  7/2 
the  ?nyflical  pfa  1  m s  ho w  g reat 
is  the  commendation  of  the 
morning  time  ?  In  the  morn- 
ing the  prophet  extols  the  mer- 
cy of  the  Lord,  in  the  morning-' 
his  voice  ishtard^  in  the  morn- 
ing his  prayer,  prevents  the 
Lord.  And  in  Luke  the  evan- 
gelift,  the  people  defiring  health 
and  irflruclicn  from  the  Lord, 
flock  in  to  him  in  themorning* 
Why  do  youjigh  ? 


fanitatem 


S6'2 


DILUCULUM, 


fanitatem  et  dotlrinam 
a  domino  conjluit  ad  il- 
ium mane.  Quidfuf- 
piras  ? 

A.  Vix  teneo  lach- 
rymas,  cum  tubitquan- 
tim  ja£turam  vita  fe- 
cerim. 

B.  Eft  fuper vac ane~ 
urn  difcruciari  ob  ea, 
quae  non  pojfiwt  revo- 
eari,  fed  tamen  poffunt 
farciri  pojlerioribus  cu- 
tis. Incumbe/£ac  ig- 
itur potius  quzm  facias 

j  a  flu  ram  futuri  tern- 
poris  quoque  inani  de- 
ploratione  prceteriic-* 
ru?n. 

A.  Mones  bene,  fed 
diutina  contuetudoj  am 
facit  mefui juris. 

B..Phy -!.  CJavus/*/- 
&fitr  clavo,  confuetudo 
confuetudint. 

A.  At  durum,  ejl  re- 
Itnquere  £4  quibus  diu 
off u  evens. 

E.  lnii'i&qyidem'Jed 
.dive  rfa  '  }  con  fu  e  t  u  d  o 
primum  lenit  e##i  rao- 
jeftiam,  max  virtii  tip 
^'i/ /w mam  voluptatem,  u t ' 
non  op  or  teat  te  pceni- 
tere  brevis  moUjhiz. 

A.   Vereor  non    ut 


I  fcarce  refrain  from  tears, 
when  I  think  how  great  awafte 
of  life  I  have  made. 

It  is  needhff  to  be  tormented- 
for  thoft  things,  which  cannot 
be  recalled,  but  yet  may  be 
cured  by  future  care.  Apply 
yourfelf  to  this  therefore  rath- 
er tha*i  make  a  wajle  of  the 
time  to  come  teo  by  a  vain  la- 
menting of  what  is  paji. 


You  advife  well,  but  long 
cuftom  has  now  brought  meun* 
der  its  dominions. 

Puh  !  A  nail  is  driven  out 
by  a  nail,  cuflom  is  overcome 
by  cujlom. 

But  it  is  hard  to  leave  thofc 
things  to  which  you  have  been 
long  ujcd. 

At  the  beginning  indeed,h\rt 
a  dijfrrent  cuftom firfl  miti- 
gates that  trouble,  by  and  by 
turns  it  into  the  gr-eatejb  pleaf- 
ure,  that  you  tught  not  to  be 
concerned  for  afliort  trouble. 

-  I  am  afraid  it  will   not  fuc- 
ceed«. 

B..  Si, 


DILUCULUM. 


163 


B.  Si  ejfes  feptuage- 

narius,  non  retrakerem 
teafolitis.  Nunc  vix 
egreffus  es  decimum 
feptimum  annum  opi- 
nor.  Quid  autem  eft 
quod  ifta  aetas  non  pof 
Jit  vincere,y?  adfit  mo- 
do  prompt  us  animus  ? 

A.  Quidem  aggre- 
diar,  conaborque,  ui 
fim  philolalogus  ex 
phylypno. 

B.  Si  fecer is  id,  fcio 
fatis,  poft'  paucos  dies, 
et  gratulaberis  ferio  ti- 
bi,  et  ages  immigrates, 
qui  monuerim. 


If  you  were  feventy  years 
old,  /  would  not  take  you  ojf 
from  what  you  were  vfed  to. 
Now  you  are  fcarce  paji  the 
feventeenth  year,  I  believe. 
And  what  is  it  which  that  age 
cannot  conquer,  if  there  be 
but  a  ready  mind  ? 

Truly  /  will  attempt  it,  "and 
endeavor  that  I  mav  become  a 
philologer  of  a  lover  of  fleep  ? 

If  you  do  that,  I  know  well 
enough,  after  a  few  days,  both 
you  will  rejoice  in  earneft  to 
yourfelf  and  give  me  thanks, 
whoadvifedyou  to  it. 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE, 

Eufebius,  Pampyrus,  Polygamus,   Glycion. 


Eu  /^VUAS  ncva&dL- 
^£/ves  video  hie? 
Nifi  animus  fa/ lit  me, 
aut  oculi  profpiciunt, 
parura,  video  tres  vete- 


WHAT  new  birds  afo  I  fee 
here  ?  Unlefs  my  mind 
deceives  me,  or  my  eyes  difcern 
but  little,  //fe  three  old  com- 
panions 3/  wi'we,  fitting  togeth- 

res 


io4  COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 

res   congerrones     rneos  er,  Pampyrus,  Poly  genius,  and 

confidentes,       Pampy-  Glycion, 
■mm,    Polygamum,     tt 
Gjycionem. 

Pa.    Quid    tibi     vis  What   <Jd  yotr    nea»  zviih 

cuvi  vitreis  oculis,  faf-  your  glafs  eyes,   you    wizard  i 

cinator    ?     Congredere  Gome  nearer,  Bufehus. 
propius  Eufebi  f 

Po.     Saive    Eufehi,  God    fave  yo-u,     Eufebiu?, 

m\\  1 1  u  m  ex  opt  ate.  ra  uc  h  /0  ngtdjo  r.  - 

Gly.  Sit  ^«*  tibi  op*  May    it   be    ««#  with  you, 

time  vir.  wry  good  fir. 

Eu.  Una  Jalute,  fa!*  In  one  /alutation,  God  fave 

vete  amies*    Qxi'xs  ueus  you  all.      What  G<7^, or  chance 

aut  <r^/«-j-    fehcior  d#  more  lucky   lAofe    «f*  GW,  has 

conjunxit  #0^  £     Nam  joined  .atf ■■?  For  ?e^72^  of  us  /W 

#m<?  noftrum  vidttaYi-  /ten-  another  now    this  -forty 

urn    jam'    quadraginta  years,  1  think.     Nhrcury  could 

annisy   opinor.      Mer»  not  /i^ae  brought    us   together 

curius    non     potuiffet  better  with  his  rod. 
contrahere  nos  z#  unum 
meWvsfuo  caduceo. 

1  Gl.   Quid  dg-f/tV  hie  ?  What  ar<?  >'<??/  «&!#£  here  ? 

Pa.  Sedemus.  We  are  fitting. 

Eu.  Video;  /ed  qua-       I  fee,  but  for  what  caufe? 
de  caufa  r* 

Po.   Operimur  cur-  We  are  waiting  for  a  coach, 

rum%  qui    devehat   nos  thdtjhouid  carry  us  to  Antwerp. 

Antwerp?  am.  f 

Eu.  Ad  mercatum  ?  To  the  Mart  ? 

Po.    Scilicet:    ;     fed  Yes;    but   fpeftators    more 

fpeclatorcs  magis  quavn  than  traders.- 
negotiatores. 

f    Eu*  Et  nobis  ejl  iter  And  I  am  tmvettin$  to  the 

eoderm      Vtrum    quid  fame    place.     But    what    hin* 

objlat,  quo   minus   ea-  ders  that  you  do  not  go  ? 
tit  ? 

Pa. .  Non  d  urn 


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165 


Po.  Nondum  conve- 
nit  cum  aurigis. 

Eu>  Biffici'e  germs 
hominufi)  ;  fed  vifne 
lit  imponamus  illis  ? 

Po.  Libcrety?  Iu>e- 
ret. 

Eli.  Simulemus  nos 
velle  a  Lire  {imul  pedi- 
bus. 

Po.  Credant  alius 
czncrosvolaturos  ^unm 
nos  tarn  grandes  con- 
fecluros  hoc  iter  pedi- 
bus, 

Gl.  Vultis  retlum  ac 
verum  confilium  ? 

Po.  Maxime. 

Gl.  llli  potant,  quo 
diutiusyia'z/w/  id,  hoc 
plus  pcnculi  erit,  ??£  w- 
^2 'dejiciant  fltfi  in  lu- 
tum. 

Po.  Oportet  venias 
admodum  diluculo,  ft 
z^j1  aurigamy^m?#2. 

G  i. Quo  per  veniamus 
maturius  Antwerp?  am, 
ftipuiemus  currum  no» 
bis  quatuor  foiis.  Oft- 
/£0  tanfcillurn  pecuniae 
contemnendum.  //t?c 
damnum*  penfabitur 
muhis  commoditatibus. 
Sedebimus  commodius, 
ac  tranfigemus  hoc  zV^r 
fuzviffimemutuis  fabiu 
(jr. 


We  are  not  yet  agreed  a/?7A 
the  coachmen. 

A  hard  kind  of  men  ;  But 
afeyou  willing  that  we  {houid 
impoie  upon  them. 

It.  would  ple'afe  me  if  it 
could  be. 

Let  us  pretend  t-hat  we  will 
g<?  together  on  foot. 

They  would  believe/co^r 
that  crabs  would  fly,  than  M<z£ 
we  fo  aider ly  mould  difpatch 
/Az  J"  journey  onjovt. 

Would  you  have  right  and 
/rz/e  advice  ? 

Yes. 

They  #r<?  drinking,  the  lon- 
ger//2  <?y  */<?  that,  jo  much  the 
more  danger  will  there  be,  /<*/? 
yi?w^  where  they  throw  wj*  into 
the  dirt. 

You  muft  come  very  early 
{{you  will  have  a  coachman 
Jbber, 

That  we  may  come  the  foon- 
er  to  Antwerp,  let  us  hire  a 
coach  for  us  four  alone.  / 
think  that  fo  little  money  is  to 
be  defpifed.  This  lofs  will 
be  made  up  by  many  conven- 
iences. We  fhall  fit  more 
conveniently ,  and Jh all p aj s this 
journey  moll  fweetly  2?3  mutu- 
al flories. 

Po.  Glycion 


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Po.  Glycivnjuadet 
re&e. 

GJ.  Tranfegi.  (T^/r- 
feen  da  m  us.  V  a  h     ! 

Httwc  iibet  vivtre,  poft- 
eaquarn  contigU  mi  hi 
videre  fodales  <?/m  ca- 
riffimos,  &*  tan  to  in- 
tervallo. 

Eu.  Ac  vide  or  miht 
rcpnbcjcae. 

Po.  Quot  annos  fup- 
putatis,  e#  tftti  convix. 
imus  Lutcfra  ? 

Eu.  Arbitror  tf0« 
pane  lores  quadraginta 
duohus. 

Po.  Turn  vidtbamur 
omnes  aequaks. 

Eu.   Ita  eramus  fur- 
roe,    ft#    fi    0*a€    quiJ 
•dijcrwiinis  eiat/> 
fill  am. 

Pa.  At  *«»fo  quanta 
in  aqua  lit  as  ?  Nam 
Glycion  habet  «ifoV  fer 
nii,  t/  Polygamtis  <w- 
*/  videri  /a'/ai  i&NHB 

Eu.  Frofe6toy/c  res 
hahtt.  Ouid  iti  2« 
tattfa*  ? 

Pa.  Quid  ?  /**  hie 
cejfavit  ac  rtjlitit  in 
citrfu,  oft*  ille  &Rl 

Eu.  Oh  !  a/mi  nan 


Glycion  advifes  right. 

I  have  bargained.  Z<?/  &j- 
^0  fw.  Oh  !  «0a/  I  have  a 
mind  /0  /iira^  after  if<  has  hap- 
pened to  me  /0^  companions 
formerly  very  dear,  a/Ster  fo 
long  an  interval. 

And  Ifeem  tomyfelf  to  grow 
young  again. 

How  many  years  do  yon 
count  \t  /ince  we  lived  togeth- 
erat  Paris?    • 

I  think  no  fewer  than  forty 
two. 

Then  &;£  feme  a  al!  of  an 
age, 

u:o   zas  were  a-!  mo  ft,    or    if 
;•  mm  any    thing  u 
£&&*,  it  was  very  lit  tic. 

But  7?0ar  how  great  is  Me  /;?- 

eq^ahty    ;.    for     Ghnon     has 

nothing  of  old  age,  a /7^   ?olv- 

gamus  might  feem    his  grand- 

jot  her . 

dy  /S  the  tking  zt.  What 
thing  ?j  t$4  ovcafion? 

What  f  Either  he  Her4  /0?'- 
AW#  and  jlop^ed  in    the  gift*, . 

#r,  the  other  has  ovtran  him. 

Qui  Years    dv-nof   loiter, 
Artfefti, 


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167 


xeflant,  qnamtumvis 
homines  ceffent. 

Po.  Die  bona  fide, 
G'/yc2 on yquoi  annos  ca- 
meras ? 

GJ.  Piures  quam  du- 
catos. 

Po.  Quot  tandem  ? 

G  i .  Se  x ag  i  n  t a  yi A . 

Po.  Sed  quibus  <zr- 
/^wj-  remoratus  es  /?- 
neclutcm  ?  Nam  H^we 
canities,  #£^&<?  rugofa 
eto£2£  adeft.  Ora/e  vi- 
gent,  [cries  dentium  u- 
trinque  ni  tet,  /w/ar  eft 
vividus,  corpus  juocu- 
lent  am, 

Gl.  Dicam  mias  af- 
tes,  7^0  afo  tu  narres  ?Z0- 
bis  vicillim  tuas  artes, 
<gp  u  ib  u  s  a  c  e  e  i  e  raiti  [c  nee  - 
tutem, 

Po.  Recipio  me  foe - 
turum.  Die  igitur, 
quo  coniulifti  te  r^/z'c- 
£22  Lutetia  ? 

Gi.  Recce  Mi  patri- 
am.  Com-moratus  ?7- 
lic  fere  annum,  ccepi 
difpicere  de  eiicrf?ndo 
genere  vitas.  Quam 
rem  .££0  credo  habere 
non  /ra?  momentum  <zr/ 
f elicit  atern.  Circum- 
fpiciebam  ya*d?  fucce* 


ho  zv  muck  jo-eve  r  men  z»#)>   /02- 

Tell  me,  ?'/?  gwaf  faith,  G/y* 
cion,  how  many  j^/cj  do  you 
reckon  ? 

More  than  ducats* 

How  hi  any  at  la[? 

SLxtyy^A. 
*  But  by  what  arts  have  you 
kept  off- old  age  ?  For  neither 
boarinefs,  war  a  wrinkled^rrc 
isyei.  come  upon  you,  7&*  ■ 
eyes  are  brlik,  ^  r#i^  of  teeth 
on  each  fide  is  neat,  the  color 
ii  4u»r/^  and  the  body  jail  of 
bi&od. 

I  will  tell  ffzy  arts,[o  be  you 
tell  #5"  again  your  arts,  ^y 
which  you  hafteioedon  old  age* 


I  undertake  £fltf<f  7  wz7/  */<?  *7. 
Tell  us  then,  whither  did  you 
belnke  yumieVi  after  you  left 
Paris  ? 

Dire£ily  into  ?ny  country, 
Having  (laid  there  almof:  a 
year,  I  began  to  confidcr  about 
c hoc fi rig  a  way  o  1  life.  Wh ich 
thing  /  believe  to  have  #0 
fmall  moment  towards  happi- 
nefs,  I  confidered  what  flic- 
reeded  with  any  one,  what  did 
otkerwife. 

dcret 


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COLLOOIUM    SENILE, 


deret  euiquam,  quid 
ecus. 

Po.  Miror fuiffe  tibi 
tan  turn  mentis,  cum'm- 
hil  fuerit  nugacius  te 
Lutetian 

Gl.  Turn  cut  as  fere- 
bat  ;  et  tamen,  #  007/f, 
non  gefli  omnem  rem 
^zc  meo  marte. 

Po.  Mirabar. 

Gl.  Priufquam  ag- 
grederer  quidquam,  a- 
dii  quendam  e  cwibus, 
grandem  natu,  pruden- 
tijjim  u  m  1  ongou/u  rem  m 
et  probatifTimum  te/li- 
monio  totius  civitatis, 
ac  meojudicio,  feliciffi- 
mum  etiam. 

Eu.  Sapiebas. 

Gl.  Ufus  hujuscon- 
filio  duxi  uxorem. 

Po.  Pulchre  dota- 
tam  ? 

Gl.  Mediocri  dote; 
Ea  res  ceffit  mihi  plane 
ex  animifententia. 

Po.  Quot  annos  na- 
tus  eras  turn  ?    • 

Gl.  Ferme  viginti 
dujs. 

Po.  O  felicem  te  ! 

Gl.  Non  debeo  tot  urn 
hoc  fortunm%  ne  quid 
erres. 


I"  wonder  you   had  fo  much 

/£«/£,  whereas  nothing  was  ware 
trifling  than  you  <2£  Paris. 

Then  7#y  age  allowed  it  ; 
#W  yet,  £00^  yfr,  I  did  not 
manage  the  whole  affair  hereby 
my  own  condu6i. 

I  wondered. 

Before  /  at  temp  ted  my  thing, 
/  went  to  one  of  the  citizens, 
elderly,  very  wife  by  long  ex* 
perience  in  affairs,  and  very 
well  approved  of  by  the  tejlu 
mony  of  the  wholmcity,  and  in 
my  judgment  very  happy  too. 


You  were  wife. 
Ufing  his  advice,  /  married 
a  wife. 

With  a  good  fortune  ? 

With  a  moderate  fortune  ; 
That  thing  fell  out  to  me  truly 
according  to  my  heart's  defire. 

How  many  years  old  were 
you  then  ? 

Almoft  twenty  two. 

0  happy  you  ! 

1  do  not  owe  all  this  to  for- 
tunc,  ilo  not  mi  (take. 

Po.  Qui 


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Po.  Qui  fie  ? 

Gl.  Dicam,a/n  dili- 
gunt  priufquam  deli- 
gant  ego  delegi  judicio, 
priufquam  diligerem,  et 
tamen  duxi  fianc  magis 
ad  poferitatem,  quam 
ad  voluptaiem.  Vixi 
cum  ea  fuaviffime  non 
plures  oclo  annos. 

Po.Reiiquit  orbum? 

Gl.  Imo  duo  fllii,/<7- 
tidemque   filiae    fuper- 
Junt. 

Po.  Vivifne privat us , 
an  jungeris  magiftra- 
tu  ? 

Gl.  Eft  mihi  publi- 
cum munus.  Majora 
poterant  contingere,ve- 
rum  delegi  hoc  inihi% 
quod  haberet  tantum 
dignitatis,  ut  vindica- 
ret  me  a  contemptu, 
cacterum  mimine  ob- 
noxium  molejiis  nego- 
tiis.  Ita  nee  eft  ^*W 
quifquam  objiciat  me 
vivere  mihi.  Et  eft 
unde  dem  operam  ami- 
cis  quoque  nonnun- 
quam;  Contentus  hoc 
ambii  nihil  magis  ;  ve- 
rum  geffi  magiftratum 
fica/dignitas  accreve- 
P 


How  fo  ? 

I  will  tell  you.  Others  lovt 
before  they  choofe,  /  chofej^ 
dicioujly  before  /  loved,  and 
yet  I  married  her  more/or  i[fue: 
than  jfor  pleafure.  1  lived 
a/z'/A  A^r  moft  pleafantly  no 
more  /A#fl  eight  years. 

Did  file  leave  yu  child- 
lefs? 

Nay,  to#  fons,  and  as  many 
daughters  fur  vive  her* 

Do  you  live  a  private  per- 
fon9  or  do  you  bear  any  office  ? 

I  have  a  public  office* 
Greater  places  might  have  fal- 
len to  me,  but  /  chofe  this  for 
myfelf,  becaufe  it  had  fo  much 
of  honor,  that  it  would  fee  ure 
mt from  contempt,  but  not  at 
all  liable  to  troublefome  bufi- 
nefs.  5<9  there  is  no  reafora 
/Aa*  any  onejkould  objetl  that 
1  live  for  myfelf.  ^f/zi  I  have 
it  in  my  power  to  be  fei  vicea- 
ble  to  my  friends  too  fomc- 
times  :  Content  with  this,  I 
fought  no  more  :  But  1  bore 
my  office  fo,  that  dignity  ac~ 
crued  to  it  from  me.  I  reckon 
this  handfomer  than  /0  borrow 

ril 


tyo  COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 

fit   illi  ex    me.      Ego  dignity  Jrem  the  fp'/endorvt 

duco     hoc     pulchrius  office. 

.quam  f timer  e      mutuo 

dignitatem  exfplendore 

muneris. 

Eu.  Nihil  verius.  Nothing  more  true. 

Gl.  Sic  confenui  in-        Thus  I  grew  old  among 

ter77z<?0i"   rives   charus  citizens  dear  to  all, 
omnibus. 

Eu.    I  flue  eji    diffi-        That  is.  very  hard,  feeirg 

-•ciliimum,  cum  dictum  has  been  faid   not  without  re 

fit  nvn  abs  re,  cum  qui  fori,  that  he    who    has  nobods 

habet  neminem    immi-  his  enemy  has  irot  any  one   \\\\ 

cu?n,  nee  habere    quen-  friend  ;    and   that  envy    is  a!- 

quam  amicum  ;    et  in-  ways  the  companion  oi    happv 

vidian)  ejft  femper    co-  nefs. 
mitem  feiicitatis. 

Gi.  I  nvidia /#/<?/  co-        Envy  nfes  to   attend  t;poi 

rmt?iiiirui£nem  feiicita-  extraordinary    happinefs.      J 

tern.     Mtdiocrilas    eft  mean  i$  fa/e.     And  ?Mj   wa 

#$$.     Et  $k  fuit    m-  wry  coiiflant  ozr<?,    not  to  pro 

■hi  perbetuurn  JliidiiCmf  cure  to  myfelf    any  advarftag 

ne    cofopararcm     quid  by  the  dij advantage  ic/i    o 

^v    ?n-  Ithrufi  mvfeif  2,^0   ;?<?  bufi 


mei    comrnodi    ^v    ?«-  I  thrujl  my 

cemmedis  aliorum.  //z-  nefs,^«/    cfpecialiv  >'&^/    m 

£«/£  mernet'wH///j 'ne-  lfe\l  from  that  which  a^/W  /10 

gotiis,    /?</     praecipue  be  undertaken  without    'he  ol 

continui    me    #£     /h>;  fence  of  many.     Wherefore; 

.quae  $»  poterant    fuf-  a  fiiend  jfjr  to  be  affifted,  /  bt 

<ciplfne  oii^nWmulto-  friend  him  >,  that  /  proem 

rum.     I'taque/F  amicus  ho  eri$tny to' inyfeif   upon  the 

erit  juvandus,   bene.fa-  account.     And    if  any  Jd?flei 

C20    iliifc,   ut  j&*>m  ^^arifes^z    any  hand,    Ie 

nullum  inimicum  mihi  ther  fofteri  it  £y  clearing  myfd 

kac  de  c'aufa.       Et  fi  or quajhit  by ■  kindnefs,^  fuff< 

Qaidjw.utiatis     otmva  it  to  die  away,   by  taking   1 


COLLOQUIUM.  SENILi 


iji 


\ialicunde,  aut  le- 
nip  purgatione,  aut^v- 
tiuguo  officiis,  aut  pa. 
tior  intermori  difftmu- 
latione,  Abflineotem- 
per  a  contentione  ; 
q^'&ji  incident,  7723/0 
facer£        '[J^tvrHTil       7di 


Qf&fc    ami  cilice. 


h 


•At-terjs    ago    quendam 
Muione???,  amdto  om~ 
-  ;  jaiiito   et    ff/#- 

Q&gW  JH!-i;i;S  ammo. 
D  a i  n  n  o  *  /?//'  ■  V  rf  /  cv  /72,  a  u  t 
jauum .n nil  Ids  ;  praeft- 
ro  rr;e  runvni  ;  quod 
t'c/.m  vdctn,  credo  ne- 
Wirri  ;  R072  fcrutor  a!i- 
orum  arcana*  tztfi  for- 
te /,'vc't  q-:;.i  nunquam- 
effulw.  Am  taceo  J<? 
A24  qui,  non  junt  p|% 
femes.  u..vr  ioquor  <2/>v 
zr£  ac  civil  iter,  hl^g- 
m  pars  limuitaturn  2/2- 
fer  homines  nafcUurcx, 
itftemperaiitia  lingua. 
Nee  excico  h#j  alo  #/2- 
*  fiia-.wiates.  oW 
I'bicunqmi  <?/■ 
&$*  daiur,tf#/  exfcnguo, 
autmtlsgo,  His  rationi- 
bu>s  hatlenus  vitavi  (a- 
vidaam.y  $t  tfAu  benevo- 
Isnfciana  ?;zn;/.  a/jfc, i v in rri. 
; «  Pa.  Noil  fenfifti  cce- 
li&atum  gravem  f 


notice.  I  abflain  always/nm 
contention;  which  if  it  hap- 
pen, 1  had  rather  fuflfer  the 
lofs  0/  money  than  friendfhip, 
In  other  things  7  ##  a  Mi  tie, 
I J  mile  upon  ail  men  ;  IJalute 
Kid  .i/~lt' re  kindly.     J   eppfd 

in»   ^in'C  wfo^ZiijTlS,       I    COIi- 

dejrin  Ms  ujage  or  a  [lions  or 
no  man.  I  prefer  myfelf  £<?- 
y.?/^  nobodv.  What  /  would 
hive  concealed,  /  trufl  to  no- 
body :  1  examine  not  into  oth- 
er me:/*  fecrets,  and  if  by 
chance  I  knew .any  thing?/#ez/- 
er  blab  if.  1  either  hold  my 
tongue  <?/  /A,yJ  who  are  nit 
prefent,  or  iptak  fr?e?;aLy  ai)  i 
c i v illy .  A  g rea I  pa  rjt  o f  1 1  •  * 
quarrels  among  men  ari,:.r 
irorn  the.  im-emperance  of  the 
tongue.  1  neither  excite  nor 
promote  other  mens  quarrels. 
1^'it  w.  here  foe  ver  an  op hart u~ 
nity  is  given,  1  either  put  a\ 
end  to  them,  QX^UjJcn  ikim. 
By  thefc  means  hitherto  I 
have  avoided  envy,  and  pre- 
ferred the  good  vili  of  my  cit- 
izens,. 


Did    not,  you   find,  a  fngle 
life  troublefome  ? 

Gl.  Ni^ji 


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G!.   Nihil    unquam 

-urcidit  mi/ii  quidem 
acerlius  in  vita  morte 
uxoris  ;  ac  optaffem 
vchtmznitr i  illam  c#>?- 
/enefcere  una  mecum,  et 

rz'j  ;  fed  quando  v*T"fulrri 
eft  ati'ter  fuperis, /#/?- 

cavi  fie  expedire  map?) 
utriquc  ;  nique  pinavi 
cm  jam  cur  djcrucia- 
rem  me  in  am  luetu, 
prajattm  cum  u  nihil 
piodeffet  defuntlcE. 

Po.  Nunquamne  in- 
cclfit  libido  repetendi 
matrimonii,  praefenim 
ca/g  iftui  ciffijfet  ieli- 
citer  ? 

Gl.  Incest    libido  ; 

Jed    dux-eram    uxor  em 

caufa  liber  or  urn  ;     non 

duxi  rur/us  caufa  /;£<?- 

rorum. 

Po.  At  5#  miferum 
cubare  folum  ^/^i 
nofles. 

Gj.  Nihil  <y?  difficile 
volenti.  Turn  cogita 
quantas  commodi tales 
fzeiibatus  kabeat.  Qui- 
dam  decernunt  ex  omni 
re,  yf  quid  incornmodi 
ineft  :  Qualis  ille  Cn?- 
^j  vidctur fuijfe,  cujas 


Nothing  £c<?r  happened  to 
^z^  indeed  more  bitter  in  mi 
file,  ^£/2 ft  //2^  dWyi  of  n  y 
wife  :  And  I  could  have  wi fil- 
ed mightily,  that  (he  might 
have  grown  old  together  with 
?-*,  awi  t&ioyed  our  commoti 
children  ;  but  Jivrx  i't  feemed 
other  wife  to  God,  /  judged  tf 
fo  te  fe  £<?/ter  for  both  :  AW- 
/fcr  did  I  think  //zere  a'tfi  <2/?y 
ca^£  why  I  Jliould  tirment 
myfrlf  avM  oar*?  mourning» 
especially  fince  //ta/  would  do 
no  good  /0  ///<?  deceajed. 

Had  you  never  a    defire    /<? 
marry  again,  el^eciullyyi/iCd  it 
Jell  cut  luckily  ? 


I    had    dc  fire  ;     but    I    had 
married  t?  &>?/£  lor  the  fake    of 
children  ;  1  did  not  marry    &- 
PTzzw  for  the  fake  of  children. 

But  it  is  miferable   to  lie  a- 
3one  whole  nights. 

Nothing?*  difficult  to  one 
that  is  wilung.  Then  confider 
how  great  advantages  a  (ingle 
life  has.  Some  take  out  of 
every  thing,  z/any  incoaven- 
iency  is  in  it  :  Such  as  that 
Crates  feems  /0  /for/*  £**«,  un- 
der whefe  name  goes  an  epi- 
titulo 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE, 


m 


titulo  ferkur  epigram- 
ma  caligens  mala  vita» 
Iftud  fir  over  hum  pla- 
cet his,  optimum  non 
fiafci.  Metrpdprus  ar- 
*idet  mi  hi  magis,  de- 
cerpe&s  undiquaquc,y£ 
-quid  <£<3#z  ineft.  A7a/# 
fie  vita  fit  dulcior.  Et 
igpi  induxi  anirnum  fie, 
a/  oderim  po£  expetam 


gram,  colktling  the  evils  0/ 
/?/?.  That  proverb  pleajes 
then?  Vzj  £{/?  not  to  be  born. 
h&eirodorus  pleafes  me  more, 
gathering  from  all  fides,  //any 
g^W  be  in  a  thing.  For  fo 
life  becomes  ?&are  plea f int. 
And  /  have  brought  my  mind 
to  that,  that  1  hate  or  deiire 
W$iwg    very    much.     So   it 


comes  to  pafs}  tkatii  anygood 
nihil  vehememer.  ita  happens  to  me,  I  am  not  elated 
fit,  zit  h  quid  bom  con-  or  infolent  ;  if  any  thing  is 
tingat,  non  efferar  nut  lojl,  I  am  nut  much  troubled. 
infoJefcam,  ft  quid  de- 
cedat,  non  admodum 
cruder. 

Po.  Nae  /#  espkilof- 
ophus  fapientior  Tha- 
itit  ipfo,y£  quidem  ^?0- 
tes  iftud. 

Gl.  Si  y&z</  segritu- 
dinis  ebortum  ejl  am- 
mo, ut  vita  mortalium 
iert  ffza/Va  hujufmodi, 
g*rr$  ex  animo  proti- 
nus,  five  y//   ira  ex  of 


Truly you  are  a  philofophcr 
wifer  Mtftf  Thale*    himfelf,    if' 
indeed  you  can  do  tlut. 


If^^y  Mz-rcg  of  trouble  g- 
rz/Lr  in  my  mind,  as  the  life 
<?/  mortals  produces  a  gnat 
many  things  of  this  kind,  i 
ca/lit  out  ot  my  mind  imme- 
diately, whether  u  be  anger 
fenfa,  fwe  #az'J  aliud  from  any  offence  or  #zz_}/  thing 
j actum  mdigne.  eife  done  unworthily, 

Po.  At  fwnt  quaedam  ■  But  there  are  fome  injuries 
injuna;  quae  moveant which  wo ula f  rai/e  refentment 
ftomachum  vel  placid-  even  in  the  meekeft  man:  And 
iffimo  ;  et  tales  [ant  fuch  art  frequently  the  off eu^ 
i  r  equenier  offen/a  fam-  ces  of  fervant$. 
u'orum. 

Gi,  Pallor  nihil  refi-        1  fuller  nothing   to  fettle  %n 

dere. 
P2 


174 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 


deie  in  animo  ;  Si  que- 
am  meder\tmedcor  :  Sin 
minus,  cogito  fie,  <]uid 
prodertt  me  nngi,  re 
habltura  nihilo  melius? 
Quid  multis  ?  Patior 
ut  ratio  impetret  Aor  a 
me  W£,t,  quod  tempus 
paulo  /?<?/?  impetrarer  a 
#z<?.  Certe  j/2  nullus 
dfo/tfrarmni  /«/?/« jquem 
patior  ire  cubkum  ate- 

Eu.  Nihil  mi  rum  fi 
tu  non  ftnefcis,  qui  jifo 
tali  animo. 

Gl.  Atque  «dta?  ne 
reticeam  ^^zWapudam- 
icos,  ozz/z  cum  primis 
net  committer  em  quid 
Jlagitii  quod  /><2^/  effe 
probro  vel  wnta"  vel 
w^'i"  Iiberis  ;  na?n  ni- 
hil <?/?,  irrequietius  ani- 
rno  confcio  fibi  male. 
Quod  fi  ^tf?*/  culpse  fit 
admiflum,  non  to  cubi- 
ttrot,  priufquam  recon- 
ciiiaro  #2£  Deo.  Con- 
ventre  bene  r^w  Deo 
ejh\o\\s  vera,  tranquilf-- 
tatis  ;  nam  homines 
non  poiTunt  no  cere  his 
m&gnopere,  qui  vivuni- 
Sc. 

Eu.;  Num.    quando  , 


*wy  razW :  If  /  c^n  cure  it,  /♦ 
^  r#re  rt  :  But  if  #<?£,  I  think 
Mar,  what  will  it  Jignify  for 
me  to  be  vexed,  the  thing  being 
like  to  be  nothing  the  better? 
What  needs  many  words  ?  / 
Jujfer  reafon  to  obtain  that  o£ 
me  pre/ently,  which  time  a  lit» 
t(e-  after  would  obtain  of  me. 
However  there  is  no  trouble  o£ 
mind/0  great  which  Ifuffer 
to  go  to  bed  with  me. 

No   wonder   if  you  do  not 

grow  old,  who  are    of  fuch   a. 
mind. 

And  accordingly  that  I  may 
not  conceal  any  thing  with  my 
friends,  /  toohcare  efpecially 
not  to  commit  any  crime, which. 
might  bit  a  fcandal  either  to, 
meat  my  children  ;  for  noth- 
ing is  more  reftleis  than  a 
mind  confeious  to  itfelfoi  any  . 
thing  that  is  bad.  But  if  any 
fault  be  committed,  I  do  not 
go  to  bed,  before  I  reconcile 
n  yfelj to  God..  To  agree  well 
with  God  i jr •  the  fountain  of 
t?ue  tranquility  :  For  men-: 
cannot  hurt  them.   mucht  who.*- 

life  fo. 


Wi^tLer  a£  anyjime  &&& 
iriet.u&* 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 


m 


metus    mortis     crucial    the  fear  of  death  torment  you? 


te? 

GI.  Nihilo  magi s 
quarn&j  nativatis  ma- 
cerat.  Scio  morien- 
dum.  Ifta  folicitudo 
f or taffe  adz  mat  mihial- 
iquot  d\es?vitce,  certe 
poffet  adjreere  nihil,  I- 
taque  committo  hanc 
totam  curam  Deo.  Ipfe 
euro  nihil  aliud  quam 
i*f  vivam  <^rce  fuaviter- 
que. 

Po.  At  ego  ferefce- 
rem  tazdio%  fi  degerem 
tot  annos  in  eadem  ur- 
be,  ilza/tt^contingat  ttt- 
£/£r£. Bornae, , 

GL.  Mbtatio  /0« 
quidem  /tafc^  nonnihif 
voluptatis  ;  vero  a£ 
peregrinaiiones  longin- 
quae  addunt  pruden- 
tiam  fortaffe  ita  habent 
plurimum  periculorum. 
Video r  mihi  obire  to- 
tum  orbem  tutiu-s  in  ge- 
ographica  tabula  neaue 
mdere  paulo  plus  in 
hi  ft  01  i  i  s ,  quam  .fi  volt- 
tar  em  viginti  totos  an- 
n,os  a  of  ex  em  pi  urn  Ulyf- 
fls.,  ^*r  omnes  terras 
tnariaque.  Habeo  prae- 
du>Lufri,  fupdidibefl  no  a 


No  ?«{?r^  than  the  day  of  my 
birth  troubles  vie.  1  know  / 
mujl  die.  That  trouble  per- 
haps would  take  away  from 
mefome  days  0/  #*y  /?/£,  how- 
ever it  could  add  nothing. 
Wherefore  /  commit  tYxhwhole 
care  to  God.  I  wzW  nothing 
elfe  but  Ma/  I  may  live  wclll 
and  pleafantiy. 


But  /  (houid  grow  old  with. 
wearinefs,  if  I  Jhould  live  fo 
many  years  in  the  fame  city0 
although  it  fhould  happen  to 
me  /0  #c£  at  Rome. 

The  change  of [place  indeed 
has  fornething  of  plea/ure  ; 
but  as  travelling  into  foreign 
countries  gives  prudence  per- 
haps, fo  has  it  very  much  dan- 
ger. Ifeem  to  myfelf  to  pafs 
over  the  whole  world  more 
faftly  in  a  map,  ##</  not  to  fee 
a  little  more  in  hiftories,  Mart 
if  I  roved  about  twenty  wholt 
years,  ofer  the  example  of  U- 
lyffes,  through  all  lands  and-- 
feas.  /  have  a  little  eftatc 
which  is  ciiftant  nv  more  ^<7« 
two  thou/and  paces  from  tilt 
city.  There  L  become  a  coui*- 
tryman  0/a  Qiuztnfomctimej, 
gilts 


176 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 


plus  quam  duobus  mil- 
libus  paffuum  ab  urbe. 
\b\  fio  rufticus  ex  ur- 
bano  nonnunquam.  At- 
querecreatus  ibi,  redeo 
novus  hofpes  in  urbem  ; 
nee  faluto  ac  falmor  al- 
tier  <\u?im /z  renavigaf- 
fern  ex  infulis  nuper  in- 
ventis. 

Eli.  Non  adjuvas  va- 
letudinem  pharmacis  ? 

Gl.  Mihi  nihil  rei 
cum  medicis.  Nee  in- 
cidi  venam  unquam, 
nee  devoravi  catapotia, 
neehauf]  potionts.  Si 
quid  lafiitudinis  abori- 
tur,  propello  malum 
rnoderatione  viclus,  aut 
ntflicatione. 

Eu.  Nihilne  tlbi  cum 
iludiis  ? 

GL  Eft ;  nam  in  his 
efl  praecipua  obletlatio 
vitac.  Verum  oblefto, 
non  macero  me  his.  Si- 
quidem  ftudeo  vel  ad 
voluptatem,  vel  ad  u- 
tilitatem  vita,  non  au- 
teiti  ad  ojltntationem. 
A  cibo  aut  pajcor  lite* 
ratis  fabidis,  aut  adki- 
beo  leftorem.  Necuii- 
quara  incumbo  tihris 
.ultra     horam.       Turn 


And  beiftg  rejrejhed  there,  / 
return  a  new  guefl  into  the 
city  ;  nor  do  I  fahiie  and  am 
faluted  otherwife  than  if  I  had 
faiied  back  from  the  iflands 
lately  found  out. 


Do  not  you  fupporf  your 
health  by  phyfic  ? 

1  have  nothing  to  do  with 
the  doctors.  /  have  neither 
opened  a  vein  at  any  time,  nor 
/wallowed  pills-,  nor  drunk  po- 
tions. If  any  languor  anfes,  I 
remove  the  evil  by  a  modera- 
tion of  diet,  or  living  in*  the 
country. 


Have    you    nothing  to    do 

with  flu  dies  ? 

I  have;  for  in  thefe  is  the 
chief  diver/ion  of  my  life.  i>/^ 
I  divert,  not  torment  myjtlf 
with  them^  For  I  ftudy  «JA*r 
for  pleafure,  or  for  the  conve- 
nience of  life,  and  not  f or  ofien- 
iation.  After  meat  /#/#  £zM<*r 
cheered  with  learned^? rzw,  or 
/  employ  a  reader.  Afar  do  I 
ever  mind  my  books  above  an 
hour.  Then  /  rif\  and  taking 
up  my  riddle,  /  either  play 
whilft  I  walk   a   //////?  in  my 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 


s77 


TufgAy  et  arrepra  teftu- 
dine,  vel  contillo  obam- 
bulans faulifptr  in  cu- 
biculo,  vel  repeto  me- 
cum  quod  legerim,  etji 
congerro  eft  in  promp- 
tu,  refer o  ;  mox  redeo 
ad  I  i  brum. 

Eu.   Die    bona  fide, 

Jen  t  is  nulla  incommoda 
ienefttuis,  ^z/^  ierun- 
tur  M&  plurima  ? 

Gl.  Somtras  eft  ali- 
quanto  deter?  or  9  nee  ^ 
memcrria  pennde,  te- 
nax,  »^f  infixero  #/<- 
^W.  Libera  vi  meam 
ridem,  exp-Jui  vg&J£ 
rneas  magtcas  artes, 
q u i b □ s  a 'V  meam  ju ven - 
tutem.  Nunc  refer  at 
Pclygamus  pari  jfjfV, 
unde    colleger  it  tann^m 

Jenii* 

Po,  Fquidem  cetabo 
nihil  tarn  fid os  fodales. 

Eu.  Narrabis  e//^^ 
tacituris. 

Po.  Cum  agf.rem  Lu- 
tetias,  ipft  noils  a/mm 
non  abhor ruerxm  ab  E- 
picuro. 

Eu.  Sane  meminimust 
fed  arbitrabamur  te 
relicluriim  iilos   mores. 


chamber,  #r  I   run    over   arc/A 

myjelj  what  I  have  read,  and 
2/ a  companion  ^<r  at  hand,  / 
r<?/<?/e  it  to  him  ;  by  and  by,  / 
return  to  my  book. 


TeH  me .  .?*  £00^  truth,  da 
you  perceive  no  inconveniences 
of  old  age,  vkich  are  reported; 
*0  /^  very  many  ? 

My  fleep  is  fcrnething 
worfe,  nor  is  my  memory^S 
tenacious,  unlefs  I  fix  £/ry 
//£?#£  in  it.  I  have  difcharg- 
ed  my  credit,  /  have  related  to 
you  my  magical  arts,  whereby 
I  keep  up  my  youth.  Now  let 
Pclygamus  relate  with  the  like 
Jait/ifulnefs.  how  he  centracled 
fo  much  old  age* 


Truly  I  will  conceal  noth» 
ingjrom  Jo  faithful  compan» 
ions» 

You  will  tell  it  to  thofe 
that  will  hold  their  tongues. 

When  / /;iW  at  Paris,  you 
your  ft  Ives  know  how  Jar  I 
was  from  dylikuig  Epicurus. 

Indeed  we  do  remember,  but 
we  thought  that  you  would 
leave  thofe  manners,  together 


COLLOQUIUM  SENJLE. 


UH   cum     adolefcemia 
Lutdice. 

Po.  Ex  multis  quas 
adamaram  illic.  abduxi 
unam  ?necum  do  mum, 
earn  que  gruviciam. 

Eu.  In  paternas  se- 
eks ? 

Po.  Refla  ;  fed  men- 
tit  ns  f<2#2  eiTe  conjugera 
cujufdam  a«»«  natfi^ia, 
vrnturiise^t  *»< -v. 

Ea.  Credidit  paiir 
id  ? 

Po.  Imo  olfccit  rera 
!#//#  quatriduum.  JWfl.v, 
fuere/iwi'tf  jurgia.  A^c 
tartien  temper  abam  inte- 
rim tf£  convivus,  ab  a- 
lea,  c^tenfque  malis  or- 
/?7w.  Quid  multis  ?- 
Cum  pziev  nori/rtiCKt  &« 
xiem^ta#ff^Mk&  riegans 

Je  Vei»e  Utc/c  tu.e.s  . 

nas  domi.  ac  fuhiride 
minitans   abdicationem, 

verh  Jolum.  et  denv  ^ra- 
vi  alio  a*/;*  rnea  galhna, 
YLigmuit  mihi  aliquot 

ptllloS. 

Gl.  Unde    rei  $/$*- 

P;>.  Mirer dabatrxon» 
inh\\J~urtim,zc  pnxterea 
plus-  /^zi  3&ris  aiiem 
conflatum  eft. 

Eu.     Reperieba-nfcur 
#wti  fatui  tit   crederent 

Fo.  Sunt  qui  credent 


with. your,  youth,  at^ans. 

Of  w^tty  .*vhich  7  had  !oved% 
there,  /  carried  one  with  me 
home,  and  her  with -child. 

Into  your  failures  houfe  ? 

DkreErly  ;  but  pretendingA^  > 
jhe*  was  the  wife  of  a  certain 
friend  pi    mine^    &/j£     would 
come  by.  $nd  by. 

©id  yourjather  believe  it  ? 

Nay,  he  [melt  out  t|>e  rraHe.r 
zv'uhin  four  days,  Piefcmly 
there  was  cT^/fcolling.  ifor 
ytx  did  1  abjiamm  the  mean 
time jromfeafls,  from  dice, <3 /7  J 
0/,W  ;;«d ■  «-W j,  Wl-at  needs 
m  5  n  y  w o r d s  ?  Wk ei&m y  fa : h e r 
ivovld  not  make  and  end  c$ 
^fcoidrzz.  denying  that  ht  would 
j&tp  fuch  •rk,??j  at  home,  tf/ii. 
now  ancl  then  iLredi-nt^g  to. 
dil'card  me,  I  ran  azvay9  and 
removed  to  anocher  piacs  zvjih 
my  #fff.  She  'brought  mtfoms 
chickens. 

Where  had  you  money  ? 

"My   mother  gave  me   fo-me- 
thing   by  jkalth.     and   beftdes^ 
more  ^&h  enough  of  debt  : 
eon  traded. 

Were   there  any    found  ^ 
foolifh  <u  to  im&jfcOa  2 

There  are   tfiofe  who   truft 


COLLO0UIUM  SENILE. 


*79 


nvHis  lib^ntius. 

Eu.  Qaid  tandem  ? 

Po.  Tandem  cum  jpa- 
tcr  fe?io  paravet  abdica- 
tions ?ny  amici  inUrcef- 
ftrunt,  et  compofuerunt 
hoc  ball  am  his  leg  i  bus, 
a/  ducerern  uxorem 
nj)ftratenu?\  repudiarem 
Gall  am. 

•Eu.  Erat  tfsjteJ-  ? 

Por\r e.rbz Juturi  tem- 
poris  zntercf/'trant,  fed 
jr^j-  prsefentis 
temp  oris  acceflerat. 

_  Eu.  *  Qui  /&#&  igitnr 
divertere  ab  ilia  ? 

Po.  Poll  refcitum  eft 
efTe  nieae  Galfae  02077- 
"*/*;;* 'Galium,-  undeiub- 
cii;xerat/£  pridem. 

Eu.  Habes '£/#0  uxo- 
rem nunc? 

Po.  Non  nifi  hare 
cftavara. 

Eu.  Oclavam  !  Non 
diSus     es     Poly  gam  us 
fine  augurio.      Fortaffe 
omnes  decejftrunt  Uti- 
les. 

Po.  Imo  £i//<i  non  fe- 
liquit  aliquot  catulostf'0- 
?/ii  meat. 

En.     EgO    WfZ/V/73      tot 

ga'dinas,  q^as   penerert 
ova  w?'/b'  dorni,       A7tfft 
/^^  polygamic  ? 
Po.  Adeotasdtt,  ut  u 


none  more  willingly, 

V/lntat  la/l  ? 

At  laft,  icken  my  father  in 
tatnejt  was  preparing /0  difin- 
herxf  me,  friends  interceded,  dtnA 
made  vp  this  difference  upon 
thefe  terms,  //W  I  fhould  rr*ar~ 
ry  a  woman  cf  our  own  coun- 
try and  divorce  my  French 
woman. 

Was  (he  jffctfr  &>z/f  ? 

Words  of  the  future  time 
had  poffed  betwixt  us,  but  a 
rencounter  of  the  prefent  /m<r 
had  bden  added  to  them. 

How  could  you  then  part  from 
her  ? 

A  ft  er  w  a  rd  s  it     was    know  a 

that  my  French  woman    had  a 

'  kufbdndi    a    Frenchman,  from 

whom  ihe  had    withdrawn  her- 

Jelfloug  before. 

Have  you  therefore  a  wife 
now  ? 

But  this  eighth. 

> 

An   eighth  !    you   were    not 
called  Poly  gam  us   witkovt  au- 
•  gury.     Psrhaps   they    all   died 
barren. 

Nay/?'.f?7  one  \chjbme  young 
ones "m  ?ny  houje. 

1   had  rather  have   as  many 

(kens,   that    might   lay  eggs  for 

vie  at  home.     Are  you  not  wta* 

ry  cA  marrying  fd  often  ? 

I  am  lo  weary,  that   if  this 

.    kcec 


&5o 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE, 


hose  oflava  moreretur 
hodie,  ducerem  nonam 
perinde.  Imo  hoc  male 
nabet  me,  quod  non  lice» 
at  habere  duinas  aut 
ternas,  cum  unus  galius 
poffideat  tot  galltnas. 

Eu.  Equidem  ^tfW 
miror,  {\barum  pingutf 
tit  quocique  collegeris 
tantum  fenii :  Nam  ni- 
hil acceierat  feneclutem 
aeque  quam  immodic<z 
atque  intempeftwet  com- 
potationes,  impotentes 
amores  mulierum,  et  m- 
moderata  falacitas.  Sed 
quis  d/*V  familiam  ? 

Po.  Mediocrls  res  ac- 
ceflit  ex  obitu  parentum, 
et  laboror  graviter  ma- 
nibus. 

Eu.  Defcivifli  igitur 
a  Uteris. 

Po.  Plane  ab  equis* 
quod  aiunt,  adafinos  j 
ex  heptatechno  Jaclus 
faber  monotechnus. 
Eu.  Mifer  i 
Po.  Nunquam  vixi 
codebs  ultra  dfewtt  dies, 
jemperque  nova  nupta 
expulit  veterem  lutlum. 
Habetis  fummum  vitae 
meae  bona  fide.  ^#&£ 
utinamP^^/yrz/.;  narret 
nobis  quoq  ;  fabulam 
fuae  vitae,  (72/2  portat  «*- 
tatem  belle /i^j.  Nam, 
m  fellor,  eft  grandior  we 


eighth  Jhould  die  today,  / 
would  marry  2l  ninth  the  next 
day  after  tomorrow.  Nay,  this 
vexes  ?#£,  that  it  is  nut  lawful 
to  have  two  or  three,  whence 
cock  has  fo  many  hens. 

Truly  /  dfo  »0*  wonder,  if 
you  are  not  fat,  and  that  70a 
Atf#<?  contracted  to  much  of  old 
a?e  :  For  nothing  ha  (Jens  on 
old  age  fo  much  as  excejjive  and 
unfeafonable  drinking,  extrava- 
gant love  ofwomen^nd  immod- 
erate wantonnefs.  But  who 
maintains  your  family  ? 


A  (mall  ejlate  came  to  me  by 
the  death  of  my  parents,  and  I 
work  AarW  with  my  hands. 

You  have  deferted  therefore, 
from  letters. 

Indeed  from  horfes,  as  they 
fay,  to  affes  ;  of  a  man  or  (ev- 
en arts  lam  become  a  workman 
of  one  art* 

Poor  man  ! 

I  never  lived  a  Jingle  man  a. 
bove  ten  days,  and  always  a 
new  married  wire  expelled  my 
oldy^rr^w  You  have  thejum 
of  my  life  in  good  earned.  And 
I  wifh  Pampyrus  would  tell  us 
too  the  Jlory  of  his  life,  r^Atf 
bears  <2££  well  enough.  For, 
tttf/e/f  I  am  miftaken,  he  is  eld- 
er than  me  by  two  or three 
years, 

d nob us 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 


i8t 


xhiobus  aut   tribus  an- 
nis. 

Pa.  Dicam  equidem  n 
vobis  vacat  audire  tale 
fomnium. 

Eu.  Imo  erit  voluptas 
audire. 

Pa.  Ubi  redvffem  do- 
mum%flatim  fenex  pater 
ccepit  urgere  me,  nt  am- 
pleflerer  aliquod  genus 
vitae,  unde  non  nihil 
quajlus  accederet  reifa- 
miliari  z  ac  pojl  longam 
eonfultationem  negotia- 
tio  placutt. 

Po.  Miror  hoe  genus 
vita;,  arrififfe  potiffu 
mum* 

Pa.  Eram  natura  fiti- 
ens  eognqfcendi  novas 
res,  varias  regiones,  ur. 
bes,  linguas,  ac  mores 
hominum.  Negotialio 
yidebatur maxime  appo- 
(ita  i2<^  «df  ;  ex  quibus 
nafeitur  prudentia. 

T*o.  Sed  mi/era,  vide- 
licet»   qua    fit    emenda 
|>lerumque  magnis  ma- 
is. 

Pa.  Sic  eft.  Itaque 
f*ter  numeravit  fatis 
k  \plam  fortem,  ut  auf. 

S'arer  negotiationem. 
*ique  uxor  cum 
*&£>&  dote  ambiebatur, 
UsrTeaJorma,  quae  /w/<r- 
r4tf  commendare  et  in* 
%*taau 


I  will  tell  you  indeed  \t  you 
are  at  ieifure  to  hear  y^c^  a 
dream. 

Nay,  i*  will  be  a  pleafure  ^ 
'hear  it. 

When  I  had  returned  home^ 
immediately  my  aged  father  be- 
gan /0  «r^me  /0  embrace  tome, 
way  of  lite,  whereby  fomething 
of  xncreafe  might  accrue  to  our 
eftate  s  and  tf/fcr  long  confulta* 
/^^merchandize  pltafedme. 


1  wonder  that  this  kind  of 
life  pleafed  you  efpecially. 

I  was  by  nature  greedy  of 
knowing  new  things,  divers 
countries,  cities,  languages  and 
manners  of  men.  Merchandize 
feemed  /A*  rnojl  appofite  to  that 
purpofe  ;  From  which  things 
anfeth  prudence. 

But  miferable,  truly  that  which 
is  to  be  bought  for  the  mo  ft 
part  with  great  evils. 

So  it  is.  Wherefore  my  fa. 
ther  gave  me  agaedlargeRock, 
that  I  might  begin  vnymerchan» 
dize.  And  at  the  fame  time  a 
wife  with  a  great  foitune  was 
courtedybut  of  that  beauty  which 
might  recommend  one  even 
without  a  fortune. 

Eu.  Succeffit  ? 


*%?, 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 


Eu.  Succeffit  ? 

Pa,  Imo,  priufquam  re- 
direm  domum,  etfors  el  u- 
Jlkra  periit. 

En.  Naufragio  fortajfe. 

Fa.  Plane  naufragio, 
nam  impegimus  in  fcopu- 
luni  periculofiorem  quavis 
Malea. 

Eu.  In  quo  mart  occur- 
lit  ifte  fcopulus  ?  Aut  quod 
nomen  habet } 

Pa.  Non  poflam  dice  re 
roare  j  Jed  fcopulus  eft  in- 
famis  exitiis  muliorum. 
La  tine  dicitlir  Ale  a  ;  quo- 
modo  *vos  Graeci  nominetis 
nefcio. 

Eu.  O  te  fiuitnm  ! 

Pa.  Imo  pater  ftultior, 
qui  credere t  t ant am  fum- 
mara  adolefcenti. 

Gl.  Quid  faclum  eft  de- 
lude > 

Pa.  Nihil  eftfaclum,  fed 
ccepi  cogitare  defufpendio. 

Gl.  Erat  pater  adeo  //«- 
placabilis  ? 

Pa.  Interim  excidi  4b 
uxore,  mifer.  Namparen- 
te?  puellce  frmul  atque  ro^- 
nonjerunt  haec  aufpicia,  re- 
uunciunint  affinitatem  \  et 
aftiabairi  perditiffime. 

Gi.  Mifeieleir  me  *#i. 
Sed  interim  quid  confilii 
tentatum  eft  ? 

Pa.  Id  quod  lolet  /«  *fe/*- 
peratis  rebus.  Pater  ab- 
dicabat,  ref  perierat,  uxor 
perierat.  Quid  pluris  P 
Deliberabamy^rio  meeum, 
an  fufpenderem  me,  an 
conjicerem  memet  aliqho 
in  monafterium. 

Eu.  Crtidele  con/ilium. 
Scio  utrum  eljgeris  mitius 
genus  mortis. 

Pa.  Imo  quoi  vifum  eft 


Did  it  fucceed  ? 

Nay,  &?/or*  I  returned  home. 
both  principal  and  */*  was  gone. 

By  fhipwreck,  perhaps. 

Plainly  by  Jhtp<voreck,  for  mug 
ftruck  upon  a  rock  more  dangerous 
than  any  Malea. 

In  what  jfca  occurs  >£*/  rock? 
Or  what  *#/#£  has  it  > 

I  cannot  /*>//  the  fea  ;  but  the 
rock  is  infamous  for  the  ruin  of 
many.  In  Latin  it  is  called  tflea  : 
How  you  Greeks  name  it,  I  know 
not, 

0  you  fool  ! 

Nay,  my  father  was  more  fool- 
ilh,  <wbo  trufted/o  great  a  fum  to  a 
young  man. 

W  hat  'was  done  then  ? 

Nothing  .<zvas  done, bnt  I  began  tQ 
think  of  hanging. 

W  as  your  father  to  impfacdble? 

In  the  mean  time  /tu* s  baulked 
of  my    wife,  poor  man.     F^r  the 

farents  o/'/^  girl,  as  ioon  as  M<y 
ne<w  thefe  omens,  renounced  aj£n- 
ity  <witb  me  f  #«</  I  loved  #*$/£ 
defperately. 

1  pity  jwtf.  But  i«  *&?  mean 
time  what  courje  was  tried  ? 

That  ot'foV/j  is  ufed  in  defperate 
cafes.  .flfy  father  difcarded  me, 
™y  fubftance -was  gone,#*y  *u>{/>  was 
gone .  #7xz/  «^/  wo re  words  ?  I 
deliberated ferioufty  with  myfeli, 
^whether  i  (hould  hang  myfetf,  or 
^#/  my tetffomeivAe re  into  a  mon- 
aftery.  , .  . 

A  cruel  refoluthn.  Iktiowwbich 
you  chofe  the  milder  kind  of  death* 

Nay*  wAtf*  ftem€4  '0  **  &*". 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE. 


**f 


mibi  turn  crudelius,   adeo 
totus  difplicebam  mibi, 

Gl.  Atqui  compluresde- 
ficiunt/>  eotut  viyantfua- 

Pa.  Corrafoviatico  fub- 
duxi  me  furtim  procul  a 
pafria. 

Gl.  Quo  tandem  ? 

Pa.  In  rliberniam.  II  lie 
faclus  fum  canonicus  ex 
ho  rum  gene  re,  Qui  rant 
llnei  extime,  /tftf^i  in  time; 

Gl.  ?-J.ybernaffr  igitur a- 
pud  Hibernos  ? 

Pa.  Non.  3W  ver'atus 
apHd\\S3&  ^oj  menfes,  tftf  - 
cviga-ui  in  heottara. 

G  I .  ■<>  i  i  d  otfendk  te  #jW- 

Ma    Nihil  »#/£  quod  ?//«// 

•  lUt&fi  <v  Jehatw  mihi 

m-tius  quam  promeritis  e- 

jus-  a?/?  erat  d'tgnus   non  #~ 

«o  fufpendio. 

Eu.  QUttt^ri/fl  in  Sco- 
tia? 

Pa  III  c  ^a*  /i«^o  fafttis 
fnm  pellicezts    apud   Car- 

fh'lflOS 

.iui.t-Joinuies  plane  moiv 
tuos  mundo 

Pa.  Ita  nfijftm'  eft'  mchi 
ra/rc  audirem  ///<?/  canen- 
tes. 

G 1 ,  Qju  d ,  m  or  tut  can  it  nt 
etia-m  ?  ^V  9/  menfes  <£i^i- 
apud  /7/o.r    cotos. ? 

Pa.  Propemodum  fex. 

Gl.  O  Conftantiam  ! 

Eu.  Q^iiid  offend  it  il- 
luc  ? 

r'a.  Quia  «iJ^a  vifa  eft 
«r?Ai  fegnis  /*/  de!icara  ;  de- 
mde  reperi  «to/  os  iliic  <:£•  • 
/vo>.?  non  admodum  fam, 
I*  folitudinew,  iff  <?^i 
^or.    Mini  emt/flnwce- 


//>*>  #z<?r^  rri^/  fo  entirely  did  I  dif- 
pleafe  my f elf. 

But  a  great  many  put  themfelves 
^in  there,  //>#/  they  may  live  W0r«? 
pleafantly. 

Having  fcraped  together  money 
for  my  journey ,  I  withdrew  my f elf 
privately  /9  a  £rra/  diftance  from 
my  country. 

vV  hither  *#  krjl ".? 

Into  Ireland,  "here  I  was  made 
«ar  cannon  of  their  kind,  <u>Ao  are 
//W/z  without,  and  Q&y:qUen  within. 

Did  vou  winter  then  amono-  the 
Injh  ? 

No.  But  having  been  'with  them 
two  months,  Zfa/ied-into  &cotiarid. 

What  tjrendedyQu -among  them  > 

_  Nothing  &*/  that  that  eonfti  tu- 
ft on  feemed  to  me  more  gentle  than' 
to  futtrve  defertx  of  him  tu^o  was 
T^r/Aj  not  cf  a  fugle  hanging. 

What  did  you  do  hi  Scotland  ? 

There  a/ #  fitaf*  man  I  became- « 
leathern^  one  among  the  Carthu- 
nans. 

Men  plainly  dead  to  the  xvcrld. 

So  it  appeared  to  me  ou/j^w  I 
heard  /^/«iinging. 

What  do  the  d*adfng  too  ?  Hotjj 
many  months  didyoujpend  with- 
thofe  Scots  } 

Aimorr  ./?:*•. 

G  onJiancy  ! 

What  ojfcidedyeu  there  ? 

Becaufe  the  life  feemed  to  me  la- 
zy and  nice  ;  then  I  fbuud  war/ry 
th e  re  o/  a  Jft#' i  no t  <ve ry  <  >  1 1  i  £ e - 
cauje  of  the  hlitude,  as  /  imagine. 
\  had  hut  U;tle  bra :n,  /  tv^j  ajraid 
left  itjhould.ail  be  loft. 

rebri 


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COLLOQUIUM  SENILE, 


rebri,  <verebar  nc  to:  urn. 
perin/. 

Po.  Quo  dcv.cia.fii  dexn- 
de? 

Pa.  In  Galliam.  Revc- 
riWWcquofdam  totss  £#■/- 
ia-tos,  ex  infiituto  j/^i 
Uenedieli  qui  teifcantut»  ra- 
/j^  veflisyi?  lugere  in  hoc 
mundo  ;  *•/  inter  .$o.r  qui 
jp/fc  fum  '  a  -x^*»  ferrciit 
cilicium  fimile  r^W, 

GI.  O  graven»  ?nacera- 
ti&nem  corporis  ! 

Pa.  Hie  tgi  undtfehft 
minfes- 

'  En.  Q*ikl  obfiitfr,  (]mo 
irh i  1 1 11  s  manerc s  /7 ft c    g  e t  - 

"pefl.O. 

fr'a.  Qma  *//«■  rcperipkip 

ceremoniarum  quam  reite 
fittatis.  Pneterea  audie- 
ram  effe  qunfttaht'  multo 
Janiliorer  his  f»6J  tfeFanj*- 
das  fe<w'cuffe'i  ad  Jeverio- 
rem  difciplinam,  fOtlYavef- 
te  mutata  in  cnndida-m-:^- 
/>.W  hos  &/#*  decern  ;*ra« 

Eu.  Quid  ofendebatlnc  ? 
Pa.  Nihil  admodum  ; 
nam  reperi  hos  i  fodales 
commodes  fans.  Sed 
Gracum  proverblum  /&£- 
<vebat  me.  Ira  que  decre- 
turn  erat  #«/  non  effe  #zaft- 
achumy  aut  ^  monachum 
ifUjgn  'ter.  A  cceperam 

*$£  cjuofdam  Brigidenfesy 
homines  plane  coeleftes. 
Gontuli  mead  bos.' 

Eu.    Quofc  me*fes  egiiti 

77//C  ? 

Pa.  Biduum,  /zf^  id/tf^ 
totum. 

Gl.  Difplicuit  {hoc  genus 
vitse  ttfque  adeo  ? 

Pa.  Non  recipiunt  n'fi 
qui  ohfiringat  fe  mix  pro- 


Whither  did  you  flee  then  ? 

Inlo  France.  /  found  there 
/o^i'  all  in  4fot-£,  of  the  order  of 
St.  Benedict  who.  tcfiif.y  by  the 
color  of  their  coa;,  ihat  they  mourn 
in  this  world  ;  and  among  them 
fo  me  w  ho  for  their  upper  ga  rment 
woie  hair  cloth  like  a  net. 

Q  grievous  mortification  of  the 
body  ! 
litre  If  pent  eleven  months,, 

VJh'Aohlndevedjou  from,  flaying 

there  always  r 

Becaufe  there  I  found  more  of 
ceremonies  than  true  piety.  Be- 
fdes,  /  had  heard  that  there  were 
fome  much  word  holy  than  thefe 
nvbotn  Bernard  had  brought  to  more? 

ft*vtre  difcipline,.//»*  black  garment 
being  than g- r/ into   a   white;  With 

thefe  /    lived  ten  months» 


What  offended  you  here  ? 

Noth-ng  *very  much  ;  for  I found 
thefe  conpanions  good  enough.  But 
//>*>  Greek  proverb  moved  me. 
Wherefore  I  was  refolved  either  wot 
to  be  «  monk)  or  /0  &z  a  monk  *v- 
markabty.  I  had  heard  there ivere 
f j  me  £  r^r  t  den  fa  n  s ,  men  .'  n*  /y  ce - 
leftial.     i  betook  myfeif  /t>  /jfc^7?i. 


How  many  months  did  you  fpend 
Two  days,«or  that  indeed  entire* 

Did  this  kind  of  life  difpleafe  yoit 
fo  much  ? 

They  admit  no  one  that  does  not 

bind  himfelf  immediately    to  the 

feflioni 


COLLOQUIUM  SENILE*. 


feflTioni.  At  e£o  nondunt 
adeo  infaniebam  ut  prabe- 
rem  me  facile  ca.p\ftrd,quod 
nunquam  liceret  exeuiere. 
Et  quoties  audiebam  vir- 
gines  canentes,  uxor  erepta 
e  rue  i  a  bat  an  i  mum. 

Gl.  Qjad  deinde  ? 

Pa.  Anrmus-  ardebat-  a*- 
more  faucli monies.  Tan- 
dem' ogctynbulans  incidi  in 
quo/dam  praefe  rentes  eru~ 
cein.  Hoc  Jignum  arrWit" 
mihi  vvot'mus,  fed  varietas 
remorabatur  electionem. 
Aui  gethbant  albam>  alii 
rubr am,  alii  viridem.,  aUi 
verfcoHrem,  alii  Junpii- 
cem,  alii  dupli  em;  Ego,' 
w^  reltnquerem  quid  /'«- 
testatum,  gefli  ferme  om- 
nzsformas.  Veru.n?  <r$/7/. 
/>fr/  ipfa  re,  ^  ionge  <*£/- 
im£  c i  r cu m f e r re  <r  ru eem  i  it  < 
pa!)iOjte#  tunica,  qaam  in 
eo  rde'.  land  em  fe  (Tu  s  /'«  - 
qzirendo,  fie  cogitabam  ■ 
mecum,  //f  adequar  omnem 
fanct.hnoriiam  femet,  pe- 
tam  fanetam  terrain,  ac 
redm:>  domunv  onuftus 
f&ntlimvnia. 

Po.  Nuin-  profectus  es 
ev  P 

Pa.  Maximc 

Po.  Undtfuppetebat  vr- 
aticiMi-r 

Pa.  Dimiror  V/?//^  venire 
tibi  innientem  «f/«r  deni- 
q.u'e  «>  rogares,  ac  «vi 
fsreundatum  fuijfj  ma  ho 
<*«/<?.  Sed  »o/?i  proverbi- 
um,  qujevis  terra  tf/z/arci- 
fcem . 

Gl.  Guam  art  cm  cir- 
ca ?n!  fejbii  ? 

Pa.  v.riiromant'cam.4 

GL  Ubi   didi'ceras  earn? 

Pa.--  Quid  refer  I  r' 


profefTion.  #«/  I  *«$#§  not  yet  fo 
mad  as  to  put  myfelf  ea/ily  into  a 
no'bfe,  which  I  {houM  never  be  a- 
bk  /o  yZ>tf  i^  o/.  And  as  often  as 
I  heard  {he  virgins  (inging,  the' 
wife  I  had  loll  tormented  my 
mind. 

What  then  P 

My  mind  was  inflamed  with  the" 
love  of  hblmefs.  At  laft,  #f  /  was 
walking,  1  lighted  upon  some  car- 
rying a  crofs.  Th;s  badge  pleaied 
tfjr  immediately,  but  the  variety 
hindered  my  choice.  «Sow*  bore  /7 
white  one,  feme  <z  r^^,  fome  <z 
greent  {o\v,z  a  Jingle,  fome  #  double 
one.  I,  /£<zj  /"  might  not  leave  any 
thing  untried,  wore  ahnoji  all  ?&£ 
fttrts.  But  1  fount  by  tne  thing  it- 
felf,  f&*f  i/  /J  quite  another  thing 
to  carry  £  rrtf/j  upon  a  gown,  or  j. 
tunick,  /Atf?r 'in- the  heart.  -^  letft 
being  weary  with  inquiring,  thus 
I  thought  with  myfelf,  /fcarl  may 
get  fl//holinefs  at  once,  \  will  go  to  • 
//6f  holy  land,  ^r^  will  return'  titiriii: 
loaded  with  h'alinefs,      - 


D  Si 'you  go  thither  f 

Yes. 

W  hence  had  you  money  for  your* 
journey  ? 

I  wonder  that  this  is   come   into' 
your  mind now  at  1  a  (I   to   afk,    apdS 
i  hat  you  did  not    afk  that  Jong  &|-. 
y'tfr*.      But   you    have   k^Tu,)  the 
proverb,  any  country  maintains  an'-' 
arcifb 

What  are  did  you  carry  about  t  ■' 

The  Chiromantic. 
Where  had  you  lea  kit  it  ? 
What  iigniiies  tW? 

GL  Qi!^ 


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GL  Quo  praeceptore  ? 

Pa.  Eo  qui  docet  nihil 
n?ny  ventre.  Pnedicebam 
prreterita,  prsefentia,  et 
*fuiura. 

Gl.  %tfclebas? 

Pa.  Nihil  minus  ;  fed  <f/- 
vinabam  audaciter,  idque 
tuto,  videlicet,  pretio  <zr- 
^//0  pritis. 

,   Po.  Poterat  /#w  ridicula 
tf  rj  ale  re  /f  ? 

Pa.  Poterat,  ^/  quidem 
fi/;»  duobus fa mul is  ;  tan- 
turn fatuorum  ctfatuarvm 
til  uaique.  At  timen  cum 
adierem  Hierofolymam,dA- 
dideram  me  in  comitatum 
cujufdam  magnatis,  pr&di- 
<vttis)qv\\  natus  annas  ftptu- 
agint a ,  negabat/?  mor.it  u.- 
rnm  <ry#'.?  animo,  /if  addi- 
iiJet  Wervfolymam  prius. 

Eu..  Kt  reliquerat  uxo- 
rem  <:£>/»/  ?* 

Pa-  Atque  /r#  liberos 
at  jam . 

Eu.  O  fenem  imfcie  pi- 
um  !  Atque  rediiih  illinc 
fanclus  ? 

Pa.  Vis  fatear  verum  ? 
Aliquant  o  deterior  quam 
iveram- 

Ku.  Sic,  ut  audio,  amor 
reli^ionisexculfus  eft* 

Pa.  Imo  magis  tncandu- 
it.  Itaijue  re:verfut  \\\\- 
tsliam,  addixi  me  mili- 
tia. 

Eu.    I^ane  venabaris  re- 

ligionem  r*   btllo  ?■   Quo 

^//i^  pote.\  ejfe  fceteratius"? 

•  Fa,  Er&xfancla  militia. 

En.  Fcmliis  in  lur- 
cw  ? 

Pa.  I  mo  ckoddam  fane- 
tins,  «/  pneaicabant  /&//;. 

Eu.  Quidnim  f 

Pa.  Juhus/fi  undus  bel- 


Under  what  matter  ? 

Him  avho  teaches  every  things 
the  belly.  /  foretold  things  paft^ 
prefent,  and  /o  come. 

And  did  you  know  them  ? 

Nothing  lefsy  but  I  guejftd  bold- 
ly, and  that  fafely,  that  is,  my 
reward  being  received  firft. 

ponld/o  ridiculous  aw  ar/  main- 
tain you  '? 

It  could,  and  indeed  tvlth  two 
fer-vants  ;  fo many [foolijh  men  and 
foolijh  women  are  there  every- 
where. Yet  when  I  went  /o  3^- 
rufalem,  I  joined  mfelf  to  the 
company  0/<*  c/rtain  great  man, 
ffry  >***&>  who  being  fe<venty years 
old,  denied  thM  he  ihould  die  with 
a  cotueri/cdviwnd,  unlefs  he  went  to* 
Ji-rufalcTK  firft.. 

And  had  b*  left  2l  wife  at  home  £ 

And/*. children /00. 

O  an  old  man  thrpioufly  pious  ! 
And'  did  you  return  /row  thence 
holy  ? 

VVjll    you  have  me  confefs   the. 
truth  ?    Something   worfe     than   I 
went. 

Thus,  as  \  hear,  the  lo<veofre« 
ligion  was  expelled. 

Nay,  it.-  <voas  mwe  in  flame  d\ 
Wherefore  returmtfg  into  Italy,  I 
applied  my'felf  to  nva r. 

Ay,  didyou  bunt  for  religion  in  ^ 
ivar  ?  Than  which/  *what  can  be 
more  wicked  ? 

It  was  a  hofy  warfare 
Perhaps  againft  we  Turks  ? 

Nay,  fomething  more   holy.,    as 
they  fa  id  then. 
What  ? 

julius  the  fee and  waged  war   a- 
liserabat 


CCEICQJJIUM  SI  NILE. 


i*7. 


jigerabat  ad<verfus  G alios. 
P.orro  experientia  multa- 
rum  re  rum  etiamjcommen- 
da  bat  militia  m  mi  hi. 

Eu.  Mukarum,y>^ma* 
Urum. 

Pa  Ita.  compfri  $o(i.  I?i 
tamen  <vixi  durius  hie 
quam  in  raonafteriis. 

Eu  Quid  turn  poftea  ? 

Pa.  'Jam  animus  coep't 
Vacillare,  utrum  redirem 
ad  negociationem  inter- 
mijfam,.  an  perfequexer  re- 
ligionein  fugtentem-.  In- 
terinvL^/i/Mn  mentem  pof- 
fe  conjungi. 

Eu.  Quid  ?  utzttesjimul 
et  negotiators  monachur? 

Pa.  Quidni  ?  iVi^i/  re- 
ligiofius  ordinibus  mendi- 
cantium  ;  et  tamen  nihil 
fimilius  negotiator!  \  voli- 
tant  />fr  omnes  terras  et 
maria  j  vident  multa,  an- 
diunt  multa,  penetrant  2// 
omnes  domus,  plebeicrum .-. 
nob  Hi  urn  atque  re  gum 

Eu.  At  non.caupQnan.-i 
tur. 

Pa*,  Ssepefelicius  nobis. . 

Eu,  Qjiod  ^«w/  ex  his 
delegijli  ? 

Pa.  Expertus    firm    a**- 
3f  j  lor  mas, 
.  Eu». Nulla  .placuit  ? 

Pa^  lmo,  smnes  perpla- 
cu*runty  ft  lieu i net  ttegoti- 
ari  ftatim.  Verum  per- 
pendebam  fudandum  mihi 
diu  in  ehoro  priufquam  ne- 

fotiatio  c  rede  ret  ur  mi  hi. 
am  que  ice  pi  cogicare  de 
*venanda  abbatia»  Sed 
primum  hie  Diana  nan  fa- 
vet  omnibus,  et  venatio. 
eft  tape  tonga.  Icaque  oe- 
to  annis  confumptis in  nunc 


gainft  the  French.     Moreover \  thfe. 
experience  of  many  things  likeujifn 
recommended  war  to  me. 

Of  many,  but  bad  things., 

So  I  found  afterwards.  And  yet- 
1  lived  more  hardly  here  than  in 
the  too  naileries. 

What  then  afterwards  ?  *  * 

N'ovj  my  mind  began  to  waver, 
vobeiber  f  fhould  return  /3  mer- 
chandize, which  I  had  given  over% 
or  ptrfue  religion*:  flying  from  me* 
ln< the  mean  time  /"/  came  into  my; 
mind  that  they  might .  be  joined  to-' 
gether. 

What?  that  you  *  might  be  at 
once  both  a  merchant   and  ar  monk; 

Why  not  >  Nothing,  is  more  re- 
ligious than  the  orders  of  the  men* 
dicants  \  and  yet  nothing  is  more 
like  merchandize  ;  they  rove. 
thtough  ali  lands  ax\\feasy  they  fee 
/tftf/ry  tbingsAlicj  hear  many  things^ , 
they  thruit  /«/0  all  houfes  ct-com- 
,  moners,  noblemen  and  kings. 

But  they  do  not  traffic. 

Oftentimes  morefuccefsfully  tha;* 
us. 

What  /sr/  of  thefe  rfirf.  jo«. 
cboofe  ? 

I  tried  #//  forts» 

Did  none  pleafe  you  ? 

Nay,  /£^>>  a//  plea'ed  me  very 
nvellj  if  I  might  have  traded  im- 
mediately, ifo/  I  cenfidered  that  I 
muft  fiveat  a  long  time  in  the  com~ 
fany,  before  tie  >  bidfnefs  of  traffic 
would  be  trusted  to  me*  And  now 
1  began  to  think  cf  hurting  after  an 
abbot's  place.  But  in  the  tirft  place 
/^r^  Diana  does  not  favor  all  men, 
tftf^  the  hun»ng  /*  often  longs 
'there  fore  eight  years  being  fpei:t- 
after  this  manner/ ■'when  the  dearh 
madum 


1 8* 


COLLOQUIUM  senile; 


modum,  aim  mors  fatris 
elfet  nuntiata,  rever(us 
domum,  ex  confilio  matris^ 
duxi  uxorem,  et  re  ail  ad 
vetevemnegotiqtionem. 

Gl.  Die  /«//•/',  cum  fume ■- 
&es  -fubinde  nouam  veftem, 
*z<:  velut  transformareris 
in  aliud  animal,  qui  ^o/w- 
//?/ fe       re  decorum  £' 

Pa.  Qui  minus  quam  A/ 
qui  /«  e:\demfafrula  agunt 
v  arias  perfonas  ? 

£u.  Die  «o£i,r  bona  /£^, 
qui  expertus  es  nullum 
non  genus  vitae,  ^.^V/  pro- 
bas  maxime  omnium  ? 

Pa.  Omnia  wo/?  congru- 
unt  omnibus  :  Nullum  ar- 
ridet  mibi  mag,**  <?## >rc  hoc 
yao</  fecutus  -liiro. 
.  Eu.  Faiuen  negotiatio 
habet  mu Ita  ineomuioda . 

Pa*  bic  efii  Sed  quanda 
nullum  genus   vitae    ^sr^r 


of  my  father  w?&  told  nie>  returning. 
home  by  the  advice  of  my  mother, 
I  married  #  ivife,  and  relumed  to 
my  old  traffic. 

Tell  w<?,  when  vow  *<>•£  nowand 
then  *  »*&»  coat,  and  as  it  wers 
changed  into  another  rr^a^/n^how 
could  you  keep  uy  at  decorum  P 

Why  /^/>  than  ///^y  who  iff  the 
fome  playacl  various  parts*  ? 

Tell  «i  in  good  earnejl,  you  who 
have  tried  \-\::y  k:ndo\  XM^ivhick 
do  you  ap.:>;  ^ve  rn&ft  of  ail  ? 

Airthin«R  d*  not  agree  with  all 
men  :  Noxe  pleafes  wfi  more  /6#* 
this  which  I  have  followed. 


Yet   merchandfee.'\\a&   many  in- 
conveniences. 

So  it  is,.     B.ut  feeing  no   £i#<i   of 

life  i^  wibeut  any  int-onzreniences, 

pmnibusT  iruommodis, orno     I  mind  //jw  province  -which  1  have 

/><3/7r  partem    ^^avw  .nacfcus     got.     But' now-  remains    Kuiel  uss 

rLt^&  will  not  think    much  to\releue> 

fQUie /^«£  of s h is  i  ///<?. 


f u  m .  Ferumn  u  n  c  fupereft 
Eufebius,  <7&/  non  grava- 
bitur  ex  pii  care  aliquani 
fe/enaM.,iii&  wtte. 

Eu.  I  mo  tot  am '- fabulant, 
j£videtur,.»<&*t  n;o*i  h&bet 
mult os  actus. 

Gl.  Erit  magnet-re  gtUr 
turn. 

Eu.  Ubi  r<ediiffsm  in  pa- 


Nay;,  /fo  whole  play,  (fit   feems 
goodj/o»  it  ha»  not  **'##?  acts. 

It  will  be.  wry.  grateful; 


When  /ty^  returiipd>'"mtQ  nty 
tr-iam,  deliberafvi*$\\&  me  own;  country,  /  deliberated-  with 
annum  q,uod  nam  #*««/:. vi-  vny{e\$ayea.r.  whdi  fond  -  of  life  A- 
fyou-ld  >e  mb irate a  An  d  a  t  t  he  f  &  me> 
time  I 'examined  n\y Mi,  for  wka*ti 
kind  I.  atw  inclinable  on  tit.  /«> 
//>t'  /«r-'/«  tit&e  a  prebend  t/jult  o/w 
fere.i 'me,  as  they  call  \t,vfagq9& 
rich  income'.     I  accepted  />. 


tae  velum  ample  c^i .  Si- 
mula ue.  exployaw  meip- 
nim,  .^r/ "  ^wffc/  genus  <?$?;»? 
propenfus  ajy  idoneus. 
Interim   pr«abenda.  ^y?'  o£- 


/£*£)    quam  .  vocant,  /arij 
opimi  ptoventus.     Accept*. 
G 1 .  H  pc  gen  us  yitaa  ^*;/- 


g^.naale  audit. 
f'i£.u..  Videtur ;. 


«*«i.'.>.z  exap,- 


This  /e?rf  of  life   commonly   got& 
under  an  ill  name. 

lt-feein$73  me  defirablq,  enough; . 
tanduia 


C0LLOQURJM  SENILE. 


ig9 


iaadum/a/zV,  xxt  human* 
res  font.  An  putatis  ejfe 
mediocrem  fe licitatem,  tot 
commoda  dari  fubito  vekit 
e  c<2?/d,dignitatein,  bonejlas 
^edes,  beneque  inftructas, 
/Sr/Ef  amplos  annuos  redi- 
tus,  honorificum  fodaliti- 
itm,  deinde  templum,  ubi, 
fi  Iibeat,<L>tf  c^j  religion!  ? 

Pa.  Iilic  luxus  otfende- 
bat  /Txf,  et  infamia  concu- 
binarum,  /#«  quod  tleri- 
que  ejus  generis  oaerunt 
litera*. 

E u .  Ego  « on  f peel  o  qu id 
#///  agu>it,/>*/  quid  ^/r  a- 
gendum  mi  hi ;  et  adjungo 
me  melioribus,  fi  non  pof- 
Jam  reddere  tf/iw  melio- 
res. 

Po-  Vixifti  per  pet  uo  in 
ii\o  genere  ? 

Eu.  ?;erpetuo,  #7/*  quod 
yzquatuor  annos  primum 

Po.  Quamobrem  ? 

Eu.  Partitus  fum  hos an- 
nos z/tf,  ut  da  rem  feffjui- 
amuim  fiud'io  medicine, 
rtliquum    tempus     theolo- 

Po.   Cur  id? 

Eu.  Quo  melius  mode- 
rarer  et  animumet  corpus, 
et  nonnunquam  conjulcrcm 
amicis.  Nam  et  concionor 
nonnunquam  pro  mea  fapi- 
entia.S,/rhacteni»s'yi.*itran- 
qulle/«/if,  contenius  z/- 
nico  facerdotiu,  nee  ambi- 
ens  quidquam  pr#tereay 
recufaturus  etiam  li  offera- 

tUr. 

Pa.  Utinam  lie  ere  t  dif- 
cere,  quod  caeteri  noitri  fo- 
dales  aganty  quibufcum 
miximus  familiaritcr. 

Eu.  Pollum  commem?n*~ 


as  human  affairs  are.  Do  you 
think  it  to  be  a  (malt  happinefsyx\\aX. 
fa  many  good  things  (Hould  be  giv- 
en a  man  en  afudden,  as  it  were 
from  he&men,  honor,  a  band  fame 
houfe,  and  ivell  furniftied,  a  gooi 
large  yearly  income ,  honorable 
company,  and  then  a  cburcbywhere, 
if  you  have  a  mmd,_V0K  way  enter 
upon  divine  woffhip  ? 

i  here  luxury  attended  mey  and 
the  infamy  of  concubines,  ar»4  */- 
y<?  that  wo/i  /zz^zz  of  that  way  hate 
1  earning. 

I  do  not  regard  whit  others  cfo, 
but  what  ii  to  be  done  by  me  ;  and 
1  join  my  felf  to  the  better  forty  if  / 
cannot  make  others  better." 


Have  you  lived  alitays  in  that 
ivay  ? 

always,  but  that  /  fpent  four 
years  at  rirfr  a/  Pa/amium. 

What  for  ? 

I  divided  ftRo/fe  years  foy  that  / 
£*?«&>*•  a  year  and  a  halt  za  the  ftudy 
of  phytic,  the  rejl  of  my  time  to  di- 
vinity. 

Why  that? 

That  /  /night  the  better  manage 
both  mir.d  and  body,  and  feme- 
times  affljl  my  friends.  Fori  preach 
too  fometimes  according  to  my 
vviidom  Thus  [o  far  1  bame  li\ed 
quietly  enough,  content  'with  one 
\i'''tn,,and  not Jeekirg  tor  any  thing 
hejtde's,  and  w.  old  retufe  it  too9n 
it  jbould  be  offered. 


I  wifh  ive  could  learn  what  the 
reft  of  our  companions  are  domgf 
with  whom  <we  limed  familiar] y, 

I  can  relate  fome  things  offonve 
rare- 


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COLLOQUIUM  -SENILE. 


rare  qusedam  de  njmnul- 
lis  ;  fed  video  nos  nan  ab- 
ejfe  procul  a  civitate  ; 
quare,y*  videtur,  conveni- 
emus  in  idem  diverforiunt. 
Jb'\  per  otium  conferemus 
de  ceteris  atfatim. 

Hugitio  Auriga.  Unde 
noftus  es  tam  miferam 
Jafcinam,  lufce  ? 

Henricus  Auriga.  I  mo, 
quo  defers  ifiud  iupanar, 
gxneo  ? 

ting.  Debueras  effundere 
iftosfrigidos  fenes  alicubi 
in   urticetum,   ut  calefce  • 

Hen.  Imo  tu  cura  iftum 
l^^w.utpr^cipitestf //<:#£/ 
in  prof-ndam  la«iam\  ut 
refrigerentur,  t?^;«  calent 

piusy^v/5. 

Hug.  Nan  foleo  free  a pi- 
ta re  msam  \fa  rci  n  a  rn . 

yen.    Non  !   ^'yw?    vidi 
te  nuper  dejeci/Je  fex  (lurf 
thuftanos  \x\  coeium,j£<r  ut 

dldis.  Ttl  interim  ride- 
bas,  qua/?  re  bene  gefta.' 

Hug  i\T4*c  injuria  ;  ^<rr- 
miebant  omnes,  et  odh- 
bant  multum  ponderis 
•currui  men. 

Hen.  At  >»£/"  fenes  fub 
levarw.t  meum  cur  rum  e- 
gr^gle,  $£*  totuin  */?r.  gur~ 
rienres     perpetuo.       Nun- 
q.iuin  vidi  meliores. 

del  eu.tr i  talibus 

Hen  Sed  /»i  (eniculi  sunt 
boni. 

Hug.  Qni  sets  ? 
,     Hen.  Cjnaia   bibi  per  eos 
te r  per  via  u  infig  n ite r  b o - 
nam   cerenjifiam. 

Hog.  Ha,  ha,  hae.  Sic 
$W#bmz  tib'u 


of  them ;  but  /  *^?  we  are  not  far 
/row  the  city  ;  wherefore,  */  it 
feems  good,  we  'will  repair  to  the 
fame  inn .  T  here  at  our  leifure  we 
will  confer  about  other  tilings  at 
large. 

Where  got  thou  To  miferable  a 
tuggagt,  blinkard  ? 

Nav,  whither  art  thou  carrying 
that  bawdy  company,  thou   rake  ? 

Thou  fttouldeft  have  thrown 
thofe  frigid  old  fellows  fomewhere 
into  a  bed  of  nettles,*©  warm  them. 

Nay,  do  thou  take  care  of  that 
enmpany,  to  throw  >them  some- 
where into  a  deep  ditch,  to  cool, 
for  they  are  more  warm  than  e- 
nough. 

i  do  not  ufe  to  overthrow  my 
load. 

No  !  Rut  T  fow-tbee  lately  th^ouo 
fix  Carthufians  into  the  dirt,  so  that 
f/tey  came  out  black,  in  dead  of 
•White.  Thou  in  the  mean  time 
Ivj  ghedft,  as  if  the.  tiling  had  been 
well  done. 

Not  without  r-eafon.;.  they  were 
all  ajleep,  and  added  m\ich<iu  eight 
to  my  coach. 

Rut  my  old  men  have  eafed  my 
chariot  extraordinarily,  through  the 
wh)ie  journey*  prating  perpetually. 
I  never  law  better. 

Yet  thou  doft  not  ufe  to  be  pleafed 
withfuch. 
.But  thefe  old  fellows  tf/v  good. 

How  kit  owe  ft  thou  ? 

Becaufe  I  drank  v'uh  then  thrice 
by  thje  road  extraordinary  good 
ale. 

Ha,  ha,  hae.  So  they  aregcfc/ 
with  thee. 


EIMI  S. 


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